On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 23:44:54 -0800, bernardoone wrote:   
      
   > On Friday, December 14, 2018 at 2:21:52 AM UTC-5, Lawrence Woodman wrote:   
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   >> If you're interested here it is:   
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   https://techtinkering.com/articles/advent-of-code-2018-25-days-25-languages/#da   
   y6   
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   > and wrote on that webpage --   
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   >>  The only real problem is that it took days for it to do the calculation.   
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   >      Heh, if you had a SuperCPU 128, it would have been done more quickly.    
   )   
      
   Interestingly, it took days even in warp mode under Vice.  However, this   
   was only 4 times as fast.  As I understand it a supercpu would have run   
   it 10-20 times as fast.  So using a supercpu and doing it on retro   
   hardware would have beaten a modern machine under emulation.   
      
   Lorry   
      
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