Sure, These are not my tests but Doug's. He compiled default so --debug and --inline-optimization not kicking in. Startup cost also counted, but he tried to run long enough to amortize that.
n was 16. perl code was something like this. #!/usr/local/bin/perl # $Id: nestedloop.perl,v 1.2 2000/12/30 21:42:57 doug Exp $ # http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/ use strict; my $n = ($ARGV[0] > 0) ? $ARGV[0] : 1; my $x = 0; my $a = $n; while ($a--) { my $b = $n; while ($b--) { my $c = $n; while ($c--) { my $d = $n; while ($d--) { my $e = $n; while ($e--) { my $f = $n; while ($f--) { $x++; } } } } } } print "$x\n"; -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]