how fast is your computer?

[howlingmadhowie]

No no, it's just to check how fast your computer is.

More specifically the thing that takes the time here is the line

if(to

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[howlingmadhowie]

correct me if i'm wrong, but i thought that windows only has extremely poor support of nvidia cards, certainly much poorer than the nouveau driver....

[howlingmadhowie]

and with a time machine, the probability is either 1 or 0 ...

[howlingmadhowie]

^^ this

and also stupid management.

and wrt bios, i find it amusing that sgi in the early 90s had a graphical bios which...

[howlingmadhowie]

then please tell that to a kernel maintainer!...

[howlingmadhowie]

well, not all countries are equally bad, in fact it would be an impossible situation for every country on the planet to be exactly equally bad or good...

[howlingmadhowie]

somehow i don't think this is about quality, but more about abuses of human rights in china.

---rant---

it is quite strange...

[howlingmadhowie]

what's your cpu, niko? and what version of gcc are you using?...

[howlingmadhowie]

it's actually barely faster (7.62s on my system) if you malloc the whole space in advance. i'd gestimate that about 99% of the time is spent calculating...

[howlingmadhowie]

here's a simple C program i just wrote to find the nth prime number.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

...

[howlingmadhowie]

mm. about the standard radeon driver, i just installed ubuntu 9.10 on an old computer we had lying around at work with some on-board ati 3200 or worse...