Re: [Help-smalltalk] bug report?

[Paolo Bonzini]

> I did it, and results are not really better: it still takes 6 seconds to
> compute 5000 factorial and 21 seconds to compute 10000 factorial, while
> with Squeak it only takes 100 milliseconds and 420 milliseconds, and I
> got similar results with VisualWorks.

Aha, I think I know.  You don't have GMP installed (check for
/usr/include/gmp.h or /sw/include/gmp.h).  You're running on pure
Smalltalk LargeIntegers.  Doesn't look too bad now, does it (except for
the crashes)? :-P

Paolo