Re: Will Java kill C++?

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From: Jan Steinman
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 04:58

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In article <3171397F.4C3F@ibm.net>, John M McIntosh <johnmci@ibm.net> wrote:
> Jan Steinman wrote:
> > Don't get me wrong, I'm one of the biggest ST fans around, but I wouldn't
> > suggest it for serious number-crunching, unless you're doing infinite
> > precision math...
> 
> Jan, I think you didn't clarify that that in Smalltalk you have number 
> objects like:
> 
> 9347592375907230957230945702397395729472947294757092374902388

Well, I did just post a factorial method in another thread that
outperforms C for cases "n > 13" but I guess that was too subtle!
(Actually, I betrayed my age by suggesting C breaks for n! where n > 8,
which is only true for 16 bit compilers.)

BTW: I just accidentally typed "1000 factorial" when I meant "100
factorial." It took several seconds to print several window's worth of
digits, but I suspect that most of that time was spent rendering the
digits onto the screen, NOT calculating them.

 : Jan Steinman <mailto:Jan@Bytesmiths.com>
 : Bytesmiths, the Smalltalk specialists <http://www.bytesmiths.com>
 : 2002 Parkside Court, West Linn, OR 97068 USA +1 503 657 7703

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From: Jan@Bytesmiths.com (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
Date: 15 Apr 1996 04:58:42 GMT
Organization: Bytesmiths, the Smalltalk start-up specialists
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