From: Joel VanderWerf Date: 2004-01-13T06:37:04+09:00 Subject: Re: faster integer arithmetics & arbitrary precision floating number Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote: > if there is someway you can organized your problem into arrays (eg. collecting > the item to sum into one), narray might be the way to go, it offer blindingly > fast numerical operations: > > ~ > time ruby -r narray -e 'NArray.int(1000000)[true] = 1073741823+1073741824' But isn't this only performing the addition once?