From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2006-08-04T18:55:11+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C - Part 3, Source code now available

Peter Hickman wrote:
> Time for another update.
>
> Isaac Gouy provided a Java implementation based on mine (ie still pre
> computes the tables in Perl) that brought the times down to sub 9 seconds.
>
> real 0m8.966s
> user 0m5.815s
> sys 0m1.488s
>
> But the big news is that William James' revision of his previous Ocaml
> version is now the fastest.
>
> real 0m3.660s
> user 0m1.958s
> sys 0m1.421s
>
> The source code for both are available on the web site for you to examine.

I stole code and ideas from Jon Harrop, so this should be called
the James/Harrop version.