note BrowserUk <blockquote><i>You are competing against something that the hardware can do in as little as one cpu cycle. </i></blockquote> <p>It is actually much worse than that these days. Most physical simulation games lend themselves very nicely to being programmed for GPUs, in which case he would be competing with not just 1 FP calc per cycle, but dozens or even hundreds of FP multiply-add calculations per cycle. <P>And a single call to his closure-based lazy irrationals would take hundreds of cycles <b>per digit</b>. <P>Even if he dropped into C and avoided Perl's sub call overheads; calculating each digit using a polynomial -- Taylor series or similar -- will still take dozens of cycles. <p>We are talking 2 or 3 (even 4!) orders of magnitude slower calculations in order to achieve accuracy that simply isn't required. <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-171588"> <hr /> <font size=1 > <div>With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'</div> <div>Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.</div> <div>"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". </div> <div>In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. <p align=right> [http://thebottomline.cpaaustralia.com.au/|RIP Neil Armstrong]</p></div> </font> </div></div> 1009200 1009390