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22nd January 2009
maxrussell
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Originally Posted by
ephemera
Ok, here's a small project you can try:
See if you can create a program to enumerate/print all the prime numbers upto
2^32 (~4 billion) as fast as possible
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Sounds too simple? ... try it for yourself and give it your best shot.
After you have written a program compare its performance with other peoples program on the www:
http://primes.utm.edu/links/programs...C_source_code/
http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/achim/prime_sieve.html
That'll be more of a long term task I feel - intially I want to read/dissect other code.
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