Speed up a program for the 50 years old processor by 180000%
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In the previous year, I wrote the program, running on Intel’s first microprocessor – 4004, that computes the first 255 digits of π. But, unfortunately, I was not able to beat ENIAC’s achievement with 2035 computed digits 1. So let’s continue our journey.
I'm glad these people exist that dedicate so much time and energy and knowledge into making low level operations as blazingly fast and efficient as they can be, so that the rest of us can use high level languages and not be too concerned with the physical reality of how it actually gets done.
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In the previous year, I wrote the program, running on Intel’s first microprocessor – 4004, that computes the first 255 digits of π. But, unfortunately, I was not able to beat ENIAC’s achievement with 2035 computed digits 1. So let’s continue our journey.
I'm glad these people exist that dedicate so much time and energy and knowledge into making low level operations as blazingly fast and efficient as they can be, so that the rest of us can use high level languages and not be too concerned with the physical reality of how it actually gets done.
Whip me, beat me, make me compute π to N digits...
Software Zen:
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In the previous year, I wrote the program, running on Intel’s first microprocessor – 4004, that computes the first 255 digits of π. But, unfortunately, I was not able to beat ENIAC’s achievement with 2035 computed digits 1. So let’s continue our journey.
I'm glad these people exist that dedicate so much time and energy and knowledge into making low level operations as blazingly fast and efficient as they can be, so that the rest of us can use high level languages and not be too concerned with the physical reality of how it actually gets done.
Sean Ewington wrote:
so that the rest of us can use high level languages and not be too concerned with the physical reality of how it actually gets done. wrong and make the systems lose performance and go to their limits anyways just because "what ofr? computers today are so powerful, that we don't need to pay attention"
FTFY
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Sean Ewington wrote:
so that the rest of us can use high level languages and not be too concerned with the physical reality of how it actually gets done. wrong and make the systems lose performance and go to their limits anyways just because "what ofr? computers today are so powerful, that we don't need to pay attention"
FTFY
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
But how would you fry your eggs otherwise???
Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++ | Wordle solver
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In the previous year, I wrote the program, running on Intel’s first microprocessor – 4004, that computes the first 255 digits of π. But, unfortunately, I was not able to beat ENIAC’s achievement with 2035 computed digits 1. So let’s continue our journey.
I'm glad these people exist that dedicate so much time and energy and knowledge into making low level operations as blazingly fast and efficient as they can be, so that the rest of us can use high level languages and not be too concerned with the physical reality of how it actually gets done.
Heard somewhere that this is one of the reasons why AI became widespread. The fundamental theories of AI (neural networks, optimization methods, etc.) are several decades (or even centuries) old, it was only the computational horsepower which was missing to make it feasible. Now, with today's computational speeds, AI is a practical reality.