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- From: marti@inf.ethz.ch (Robert Marti)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: 15 Apr 1996 10:03:36 +0200
- Organization: Dept. Informatik, ETH Zuerich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
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- References: <3134D499.653E@ix.netcom.com> <Jan-1104960033370001@news.magmacom.com> <3171397F.4C3F@ibm.net> <Jan-1404962357150001@news.magmacom.com>
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- In article <Jan-1404962357150001@news.magmacom.com>,
- Jan Steinman <Jan@Bytesmiths.com> wrote:
- >BTW: I just accidentally typed "1000 factorial" when I meant "100
- >factorial." It took several seconds to print several window's worth of
- >digits, but I suspect that most of that time was spent rendering the
- >digits onto the screen, NOT calculating them.
-
- Indeed. Some Scheme interpreter I used to use (it may have been
- MIT Scheme version 6 or 7) wrote a prompt after finishing the
- computation, and before writing the actual result. Normally, you
- couldn't notice a gap between the two outputs, but when evaluating
- (factorial 1000), the prompt would be displayed almost immediately,
- but you'd have to wait a while until several screens of digits
- scrolled past ...
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