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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 13:39:36 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Serious performance problems (new snapshot has some performanceimprovement)
- References: <SERRANOVJ7AnvcesML5000001fe@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: 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
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