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From: tim@franck (telnet user)
Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn
 C or Pascal?]
Date: 1996/08/08
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Tim Behrendsen (tim@airshields.com) wrote:

: This is an interesting case, because it is somewhat inefficently
: implemented.  If you're interested in speed, you would do...

: int gcd(int x, int y) {
:     int z;
:     while (y != 0)
:         z = y; y = x % y; x = z;
:     return(y);
: }

However if you are interested in correctness, you use braces for the
loop.  I think this case where you write assembly in C, get it wrong,
and ...

: Using my AIX compiler, I get a nominal improvement of about
: 10%, mostly because the speed of the modulo is much slower
: than the inefficiency of recursion.

only achieve a 10% speedup proves everyone else's point, and is an
appropriate place to end this thread.

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