G'morning Jasen, 

 MM> Interesting !  It still took 4 seconds here, but I saw much more
 MM> of the early solutions that I did in the earlier runs - which
 MM> suggests its slowed up in the initial solving, and speeded up in
 MM> the later stages...

 MM> Make any sence ?

(sic)

 JB> Yes, we've been timing it with the printing disabled,
 JB> display output is the biggest slow-down. by speeding up the
 JB> algorithm the results would come faster at the end where
 JB> the algorithm is most sluggish but at the start it will
 JB> still seem the same speed (as printing is the bottleneck)

And something else must have allowed early lines to stay on screen 
longer, too...

:-)
 
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