[Tutor] Why does counting to 20 million stress my computer? (original) (raw)

Chris Irish chris.irish at libertydistribution.com
Sat Jul 17 01:35:09 CEST 2004

Dick Moores wrote:

I was just fooling around writing a script (below) that would show how fast my computer can count. I was pleased with the speed, but dismayed that counting to a mere 15 or 20 million reduced available memory from about 300 to close to zero, forcing a reboot; and sometimes upon rebooting I would find some important Win XP settings changed. Do I have to get a CS degree to understand what's going on? Or can someone point me to an explanation?

Some results: 0 to 9999999 in 7.641 seconds! 0 to 1000000 in 0.766 seconds! 0 to 100000 in 0.078 seconds! 0 to 50000 in 0.031 seconds! 0 to 10000 in 0.000 seconds! On my Powerbook G4 @ 1Ghz with 1 GB SDRAM it took me 228.033 seconds to count to 50 million.......Cool Does anyone have a 2.5 Ghz or faster P4 that can run Dick's program?
I'm curious to just how much faster those newer processors really are from Intel :) Thanks Chris

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