[MWForum]MIA, Ask an Expert: gravity, asciis, ...

[Jeff Knope]

Am I reading this right? It appears to me both the machines' clock speeds 
and the respective execution times both vary by approximately a factor of 
10. Doesn't that suggest a fairly linear relation of clock speed to 
execution time, rather than the exponential one predicted earlier in this 
thread?

Aside for Mike: 0.00001, 0.0001 or 0.001 are all floating point values. If 
you use an integer (e.g. 1), execution time decreases.

--Jeff



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Ajoy" <dajoy@openworldlearning.org>
To: <mwforum@lists.mathcats.com>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [MWForum]MIA, Ask an Expert: gravity, asciis, ...


> On 11 Oct 2004 at 16:02, Mike Sandy wrote:
>
>> I used:
>> st resett repeat 100[repeat 1000[fd 0.00001]] show timer.
>>
>
> My 233Mhz computer says:
>
> st resett repeat 100[repeat 1000[fd 0.00001]] show timer
> 1950
>
> My new 2.8Ghz computer says:
>
> st resett repeat 100[repeat 1000[fd 0.00001]] show timer
> 227
>
> It is almost a factor of 10. And I know some Macs running
> MicroWorlds Pro that are even slower. I bet many older
> computers are still running MicroWorlds 2.03...
>
> Daniel
> OpenWorld Learning (OWL)
>
>
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