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(...) I probably couldn't, no, but a very experienced Java programmer and a good JVM machine could conceivably do better than C. (It's not unheard of for Java to be faster than C for certain types of things.) The big hits would probably be the JVM (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) well, I can think of several ways of doing it, but since $v might be millions of bits long, we don't really want to get the full list in memory ever. So I guess the simplest way would be to run through the vector, indexing the 1s: (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmm, 8 bit floating point numbers can't implement a very large range of numbers. How many bits of exponent were you planning on? I think conversion would probably actually be pretty easy since you will just take e bits of the exponent from the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Of course I've heard of situations where an interpreter outdid hand crafted assembler. This can occur if the portion of the interpreter necessary to run your code fits in the code cache and the byte codes fit in the data cache when the hand (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Suggested CD-R(W) Burner programs
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(...) CDRWIN isn't the most user-friendly program in the world, and it really isn't designed (or used much) for backing up files. It's mainly a CD copying program. As a matter of fact it was originally known as PSXCopy - I'll leave it to your (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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