On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:26:39AM +0100, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> 
> >> Where can I find the C code you are using?
> >
> > int ack(int x, int y) {
> >   return x==0? y+1: (y==0? ack(x-1,1):ack(x-1,ack(x,y-1)));
> > }
> 
> If you write it like this:
> 
> int ack(int x, int y) {
>    if (x==0) return y+1;
>    if (y==0) return ack(x-1,1);
>    return ack(x-1,ack(x,y-1));
> }
> 
> then gcc-3.4.3 generates better code (optimizes tail calls).
> -fomit-frame-pointer further speeds it up.


Would be nice to have the comlete benchmark again - now with this
code (or with an added row for this C-Code).

So we can compare, what reults will yielded by that different code
on the same platform for which we saw the other benchmark values.

Ciao,
   Oliver