[fpc-other] Re: Shootout: k-nucleotide implementation (was: Which programming language is fastest?)

[Isaac Gouy]

--- On Sat, 5/14/11, Bernd Kreuss <prof7bit at googlemail.com> wrote:

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> Yes, but it also runs 5 times faster on only one CPU.
> 
> The reading into the buffer does not contribute any
> noteworthy amount
> of time according to my profiling. By FAR the most time is
> spent with
> building up the hash table with *millions* of entries
> (which includes
> looking up each potentially new entry before adding it).


The intention behind k-nucleotide task was to test hash table performance.