3 Apr
2008
3 Apr
'08
6:26 p.m.
Don Stewart wrote:
Which, incidentally, also explains why Don couldn't reproduce it on a 64- bit system. There, instead of hanging for about a minute before printing out the list, it would hang for about 4 billion minutes.
A billion minutes here, a billion minutes there, and pretty soon you're talking about enough time to brew a nice cup of tea.
It's also interesting how our 32 bit machines are fast enough now to make Int indices noticeably problematic. And thankfully, 64 bit machines are common enough now that the 32 bit Int issues are less of an issue.
Alas, we've swapped that for a big performance slowdown due to the
doubled size of pointers, courtesy of STG's addiction thereto.