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06/01/07 17:10
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#140175 - How fast is fast?
If we wanted to have a weekend challenge to write the fastest version of some little program, what would be the best way to define "fast"? Maybe just oscillator periods on a standard old 12-clocker, as defined in Table 7 of "the bible"???

Another wrinkle on the same question ... what would "fast" mean for an algorithm whose speed depended on the input data? I guess we'd have to define a set of test data for measurement purposes?

-- Russ


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How fast is fast?            01/01/70 00:00      
   Cycles            01/01/70 00:00      
      One cycle == one cycle???            01/01/70 00:00      
         there are subtle differences            01/01/70 00:00      
            Normalizing for the subtle differences            01/01/70 00:00      
               Want something fast?            01/01/70 00:00      
               can make all at once            01/01/70 00:00      

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