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- From: thay@uoguelph.ca (Toby K Hay)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: A real basic problem?: (code!) long integers or compiler problem?
- Date: 20 Apr 1996 18:47:19 GMT
- Organization: University of Guelph
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- Joe Larson (ERQK75A@prodigy.com) wrote:
- : I think you're right, Toby - except it'll take about 65,535 times longer,
- : and not quite as a long as a day or 2...!
- : I compiled the program with Borland C++ 4.5 and had no problem running it
- : on a Pentium90 - but I had to wait a little while. I inserted timestamps
- : around maxlng() to see that it took 269 secs. For a 486DX2(-66?) it'll
- : take about twice as long. Check it out.
-
- That makes it about 15 minutes on my 486-25 - still way short of the day
- or two I predicted. I wouldn't want to wait while it ran on any system
- with 64 bit longs.
- Toby Hay thay @uoguelph.ca
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