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:
>
>> If you're interested here it is:
>
>> https://techtinkering.com/articles/advent-of-code-2018-25-days-25-languages/#day6
>
> and wrote on that webpage --
>
>>  The only real problem is that it took days for it to do the calculation.
>
>      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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