Re: Pi program and hard disk usage

user923005 wrote:
) I guess that they figured out a way to do it so everything they
) operate on fits in RAM.
) If you use disk, you slow down by a factor of 300,000. Since they
) don't seem horribly slow, we can assume that they are not using disk
) for RAM.
)
) Maybe you have more temporary variables than they do.

Or maybe they operate on chunks, and have the OS read the next chunk
from disk while the calculations for the first chunk are busy.
And, of course, they wrote it such that each chunk needs to be processed
as few times as possible.


SaSW, Willem
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