From the nimble fingers of Robert Purves
(robert.purves@...) (30/6/2000 3:23 AM) came...

> Aficionados of fast counting, and other crazed speed addicts like myself,
> may enjoy this comparison between counting with FB^3's FOR/NEXT and
 
> This counts at more than 600 MHz on my 350 MHz iMac. It seems a long time
> since I was amazed to find that an Apple II could count at a couple of
> hundred kHz in 6502 assembler. The iMac is a mere 3000 times faster.
> 
Have you stopped to consider the implications of using up numbers that fast
just for your own wanton, selfish amusement? Where will we all be when
they're gone? Innumerate, I suppose...
-- 
Ted Spencer; ted@...
-- 
In the absence of that which you are not, that which you are is not.
(Robert Covington)