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RE: Serious performance problems (new snapshot has some performanceimprovement)
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 13:45:23 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Serious performance problems (new snapshot has some performanceimprovement)
- References: <SERRANOHgLHVbxZXAoi00000205@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> >From: Igor Pechtchanski
> >Sent: 31 May 2005 18:40
>
> > On Tue, 31 May 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> >> ----Original Message----
> >>> From: Gerrit P. Haase
> >>> Sent: 29 May 2005 20:37
> >>
> >>> It is about 2,8514851485148514851485148514851 times faster at my
> >>> workstation. Gerrit
> >>
> >> That's an impressively precise measurement. Tell me, where do you
> >> find an O(10^32)Hz timebase?
> >
> > 2,8514851485148514851485148514851 = 288 / 101 = 2 + 86/101
> >
> > The rest is probably WinCalc... :-)
> >
> > This comes pretty close to e, however. Coincidence? ;-)
> > Igor
>
> No! CONSPIRACY!!!!1!
Must've taken some serious tweaking to get even that close. Hats off,
everyone!
Igor
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