Very nice article Sven ! Can you contribute your code to the PolyMath project under the MIT Licence (and maybe some tests) ? Thank you. On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
I just published a short, introduction level article,
Speeding up factorial computation by changing the order of multiplications.
This is a story about a small, seemingly innocent code change that speeds up a very simple computation. It is pretty magical and serves as an example of how things are not always what they seem.
https://medium.com/concerning-pharo/speeding-up-factorial-computation-by-cha...
Enjoy,
Sven
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