Re: [Nolug] In case you wanted to know how big 2 to the 3,000, 000is...

From: Manuel Lora <vanguardist_at_cox.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:52:39 -0500
Message-ID: <40E35247.1080501@cox.net>

umm.. 2 to the 3 million? i would expect the answer to be a lot larger
than that

ml

Petri Laihonen wrote:
>>>It took about 15 minutes on my Athlon(tm) XP 2200+. Shoulda
>>>timed it.
>>
>>I have a P4 1.4 Ghz machine. I was doing a few other things at the time
>>too...
>>
>>
>>Wed Jun 30 15:49:54 CDT 2004
>>903090
>>Wed Jun 30 16:23:23 CDT 2004
>>
>>
>>33 minutes!
>>
>
>
> I like this kind of pissing contest where inferior machine beats the hell
> out of "superior" machines.
>
> My web server,
> AMD Duron ~ 1Ghz,
> while handling all the webstuff, emails, database etc.... for a bit under
> 100 domains calculated that same thing in :
>
> Surprise..... 131 seconds. (Roughly under 3 minutes.)
>
> I got the same result
> length: 903090
> time: 131
>
> Except I just used PHP from commandline.
> Could the language used really make that much of a difference?
> If yes, who would use such a slow language???
>
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