Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Apr 8 01:57:27 EDT 2002

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David Eppstein wrote:
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> Not to criticise your project, but this is not a good example to use --
> you've started with a very unnecessarily slow algorithm.

The point of the example isn't to show how to find
prime numbers quickly. It's just a representative
CPU-intensive task that demonstrates what Pyrex
can achieve. Using a more efficient algorithm
wouldn't make that point any more effectively.

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