Re: [Factor-talk] Looks like the Windows binaries are failing

[Darrin T. <dar...@gm...>]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Paul Moore<p.f...@gm...> wrote:
> [1] Simulate dealing and scoring a cribbage hand, many millions of
> times. Gather stats on the distributions of the results. Bonus points
> for making the hand generation and scoring procedures easy for the
> user to fiddle with (that bit seriously hurts languages with high
> function call overheads!)
>

Don't underestimate factor without the very very latest compiler
improvements. I've been pleasantly surprised with the speed of naive
code.

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Darrin