From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2009-11-16T00:25:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Trajectories

Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote:
[...]
> When the time results are so small they don’t really mean anything:
> 
> shot@devielle:~$ ruby -v
> ruby 1.9.1p243 (2009-07-16) [x86_64-linux]
> 
> shot@devielle:~$ time ruby -rbigdecimal -e "10_000_000.times{x = 
> BigDecimal.new('3.5') * BigDecimal.new('4.2')}"
> real  0m50.280s
> user  0m47.719s
> sys   0m0.112s
[...]

Yeah, I tried longer runs as well and saw larger differences.  I 
question the applicability of those to actual programs, though; even 
computationally intensive programs are going to be spending lots of time 
doing things other than number crunching.

Besides, what good are fast calculations if they're wrong?

> 
> — Shot

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