Re: Math in Java

From:

"Kenneth P. Turvey" <kt-usenet@squeakydolphin.com>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

29 May 2008 13:17:00 GMT

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On Thu, 29 May 2008 12:52:18 +0100, Jeremy Watts wrote:

Well, I'm using the IDE called 'BlueJ', and have the program represented
as a class which then within it have the methods needed to represent the
various 'sub-routines' of the program. I'm assuming the JVM is up and
running when I open BlueJ and run the class. Maybe it isnt I dont know
:)

It has to start a new instance of the JVM to run the program in. That's
probably a big part of your time. If you are going to run this program
10,000 times or something, you try to do so without restarting it each
run. Have it run once, but process the algorithm 10,000 times.

Now if you only need to run it one time, then just wait the 20 seconds
for it to get done.

You could put the code up on a web page an post a link to it to the
newsgroup. If you are using BigIntegers and BigDecimals you are going
have to take a performance hit. There is no way around this. You might
look at the C code and see how they did it. I seriously doubt they used
anything as heavyweight as these two classes. Don't use them unless you
really need them.

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