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Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector by pjc50 on Friday August 27, 2021 @04:44AM (#28325598)
.. are you sure it's not the rand functions that are slow?
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Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector by arc-in-space on Friday August 27, 2021 @05:00AM (#28325663)
You mean the ones that RET 16? My computer person instincts tell me no, it's not those.
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Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector by jcelerier on Friday August 27, 2021 @04:52AM (#28325636)
the rand functions are

    double rand_double() { return 16.; }
    int rand_int() { return 16; }
here are profiling traces:

https://imgur.com/a/5vkblDr

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