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

From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:55:41 -0500
Message-Id: <1088643341.29741.0.camel@haggis.homelan>

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 17:54 -0500, 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???

Sooo, what command did you use. Please share it with us.

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