On Sep 14, 2007, at 4:58 PM, diego scataglini wrote:

> I think that the timing of the scripts are not a good index. It all  
> depends on what hardware/os you are running it on.
> If we want to use speed as an index we should probably have J.E.  
> compare them all on the same machine.

I view it that we are getting a rough idea of speeds, not exact  
counts.  Both scripts timed so far seem to be able to answer the  
question in under a second on semi-current hardware.  Good enough for  
me.

> Maybe we could also write a ruby script that runs all the entry  
> scripts and time them, and that could be another ruby quiz which  
> will also be voted on speed and then we could write a ruby script  
> to time those entries an then we could .... Just ignore this paragraph

Thank you for volunteering...  ;)

James Edward Gray II