On Jul 16, 7:18 pm, Francogrex <······@grex.org> wrote:
> I wrote a function which loops through a long list of strings (about a
> 10000) modifies some according to some specified rules and finally it
> groups similar strings together. When this is run (even loaded from a
> compiled .fas file), it takes about 2 hours to complete (it's true at
> some level there is an iteration through an array of 10 million rows
> (10000*10000). I was sreading Paul Graham's book and in it he was
In case this was a brainfart and not a typo, 10000*10000 = 100
million, not 10 million.