Re: [FWP] Factorial Elegance

[abigail@foad.org]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 09:00:33AM -0500, Tim Ayers wrote:
> 
> I benchmarked calculating 170!. I did it with and without caching,
> i.e. in Michael's and my solution I reset the cache before calling
> factorial(170). I'm really impressed at the speed of Michael's
> solution. How in the world is it so fast?

You posted a question about the results of a benchmark, without including
the benchmark itself. Since benchmarking is non-trivial, and leaves lots
of rooms for errors, such questions without knowing the circumstances are
impossible to answer. You might as well ask for the results of next weeks
lottery.



Abigail

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