[plt-scheme] Fractals

From: Noel Welsh (noelwelsh at yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Sep 21 07:48:36 EDT 2006

--- Joshua Zucker <joshua.zucker at gmail.com> wrote:

> ... makes me wonder if I could get a significant
> speedup in my central loops by doing something special
> with my floating-point numbers 

In my experience floating point inner loops in C are around
100 times faster than the equivalent in Scheme. 
Reimplementing inner loops in C has made a really
noticeable difference to my code.

N.

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