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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.lang.apl
Subject: Re: Sample code
Message-ID: <5621@alice.uUCp>
Date: Wed, 11-Jun-86 11:01:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 11 11:01:23 1986
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As absurd as it may sound, I know a guy who claims that the
real-world performance of an APL system can be accurately
predicted by finding out how fast an empty user-defined
function can be called in a simple loop.  Thus:


	N <- 1000
LOOP:	FUN
	-> (0 >= N <- N - 1) / LOOP


where FUN has no arguments and no body.