For the specially interested, there's also this fun thread from some years ago: http://forum.world.st/Challenge-Tuning-the-large-factorial-td3588660.html <http://forum.world.st/Challenge-Tuning-the-large-factorial-td3588660.html>
Cheers, Henry > On 24 May 2016, at 9:57 , Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote: > > I just published a short, introduction level article, > > Speeding up factorial computation by changing the order of multiplications. > > This is a story about a small, seemingly innocent code change that speeds up > a very simple computation. It is pretty magical and serves as an example of > how things are not always what they seem. > > https://medium.com/concerning-pharo/speeding-up-factorial-computation-by-changing-the-order-of-multiplications-f4da3a5576da#.l3nrk9oax > > Enjoy, > > Sven > > -- > Sven Van Caekenberghe > Proudly supporting Pharo > http://pharo.org > http://association.pharo.org > http://consortium.pharo.org > > > > >
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