Peter Hickman wrote: > Time for another update. > > Isaac Gouy provided a Java implementation based on mine (ie still pre > computes the tables in Perl) that brought the times down to sub 9 seconds. > > real 0m8.966s > user 0m5.815s > sys 0m1.488s sub 9 seconds? 7.3s "real" is elapsed time, which includes all those other processes that grabbed CPU after you gave the time command.