From: Eric <eric.duminil@...>
Date: 2006-06-25T20:34:36+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] pp Pascal (#84)

> > > Minutes : 2 Seconds : 41 Milliseconds : 15
> >
> > That's indeed pretty slow!
>
> That's not slow at all, for an old 486 with 8MB of memory... ;]
>
> I mean, mentioning seconds without mentioning the iron and
> other running processes is pretty useless.

I totally agree, that was rather silly.


> What about clock cycles?
>
>  $ clockcycles pascaltriangle 666 > /dev/null
>  1.77024e+10 clock cycles

I didn't find any "clockcycles" debian package.
Where did you get this binary?



> At least, it's more fun...
>
> gegroet,
> Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/

Bye,

Eric