From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-01-13T03:00:06+09:00
Subject: Re: faster integer arithmetics & arbitrary precision floating number

Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> in fact, the operations are fast enough that you might simply be able to use
> normal ruby objects and ignore the Fixnum/Bignum distinction - which is a very
> useful (accurate) abstraction:
> 
>   ~ > irb -r narray
>   irb(main):001:0> (na=NArray.object(1000000))[true] = 1073741823+1073741824
>   => 2147483647
> 
>   irb(main):002:0> a=Time.now; p(na.sum); b=Time.now; b.to_f - a.to_f
>   2147483647000000
>   => 0.882834911346436
> 
> not bad for summing a million numbers with arbitrary precision eh?

Nice! I can surely try clustering the numbers into sizable bites of 
Narray's before summing them up together.

Thanks,
-- 
dave