[PLUG-TALK] Autodialer numerical math puzzle

[Brent Rieck]

Russell Senior wrote:
> Interesting.  I hadn't heard of it, but I knew about GNU mp, the
> multiple precision library.  CLISP uses the GNU mp library, which is
> how it is so fast for a byte-compiled implementation, but it blew up
> on the large bignums for some reason.
> 
> My wild-assed guess is that the CMUCL run (using bignums) was around
> 15 minutes (on a 2.8GHz P4).

I'll see if I can figure out a way to try it on my hardware with my 
distinct lack of lisp experience.

> On my 1GHz P3, the calc (apcalc on Debian, btw) run took 28 minutes
> (24m22.203s user).  On what hardware did it take under 3 minutes?

Nothing too crazy, an "Athlon 64 X2 3800+".  Only one of the cores was 
being used though as it's not been parallelized it seems.

--Brent