how many nested for can we utilize?

Wojtek Walczak gminick at bzt.bzt
Sun Aug 17 13:32:37 EDT 2008


On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:17:06 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>>> it'll take approx 40 billion years to run the program.
>> 
>> I guess that's exactly why the OP asks the question. He just wants
>> to start as soon as possible ;-)
>
> required reading:
>
>    "The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations"
>    http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912202

Kinda buddhist approach. Anyway, it might work out, unless the number
of for loops is increasing in time and in 18 months it may be - let's
say - 20 nested for loops more ;) Got to ask the OP.

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Regards,
Wojtek Walczak,
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