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From: "Clifford J. Nelson" <cnelson9@gte.net>
Subject: Re: ratioanl number type
Date: 1999/12/11
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Pascal Obry wrote:

> Clifford J. Nelson <cnelson9@gte.net> a �crit dans l'article
> <385252FF.BB4C7A5@gte.net>...
> >
> > A timing test of GNAT Ada95 CodeBuilder 1.1 exact rational numbers with
> > unlimited size integers using http://www.chat.ru/~vagul/Unlimit7.zip
> > compared to Mathematica 3.01.
> >
> > Ada95 took 4861.733319000 seconds. Mma took 15.2667 seconds.
> >
>
> Well, you did not tell us what option you did use to build the Unlimit7
> package!
>
> You should definitly use gnatmake's "-gnatpn -O3" options.
>
> Anyway this is expected as Robert said in a previous mail. Mma is tuned
> for this kind of computation.
>
> Pascal.
>
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Well then, am I wasting my time trying to beat Mma with a compiled high
level language?

   Cliff Nelson