Bonjour, Spurred by the recent excitement about a new largest prime number (1), I wanted to see how long it would take to just write the number. So I wrote a simple program and added timing to produce the following.
claude@hibou:~/Programming/scheme$ ./big-prime time to compute big prime : 1.074 seconds time to convert it to a string : 778.617 seconds time to write it to a file : 710.805 seconds I compiled the program on Debian 8 64-bit with Chicken 8.10.0 and Numbers 4.3 and "-O3". The CPU is an old dual-core Pentium E2200 @ 2.20GHz. Version 4.10.0 (rev b259631) linux-unix-clang-x86-64 [ 64bit manyargs dload ptables ] compiled 2015-08-04 on yves.more-magic.net (Linux) Here is the program (minus timing code). (use numbers) (define big-prime (- (expt 2 74207281) 1)) (define big-print-str (number->string big-prime)) (define outport (open-output-file "big-prime.txt")) (display big-prime outport) (newline outport) (close-output-port outport) A colleague claims a Haskell program calculating the prime and writing it to a file ran in 17 seconds. That's 89 times faster. Am I missing something? Is 4.10.1 faster? Back in June, there was talk of Numbers performance. Where do we stand now? Should I try the code in GIT? Thank you. P.S. He may have written the number in binary. That would explain a lot. Still, am I missing something? Hum ... I should probably use cpu-time instead of current-milliseconds but (oddly) I do not know have to deal with the two returned values. :-( (1) http://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M74207281 -- Claude Marinier
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