From: terje.mathisen@nospicedham.tmsw.no   
      
   James Van Buskirk wrote:   
   > "fizz buzz"  wrote in message   
   > news:f32b85f8-e105-4869-bb7e-456c2d525981@googlegroups.com...   
   >   
   >> According to this logic, fastest prime number calculating algorithm   
   >> would just print text file with already calculated prime numbers.   
   >   
   > Whoa, you can calculate and format the primes via the Sieve of   
   > Eratosthenes way faster than you can read the data off disk.   
   >   
   Exactly right, and we have the same case here:   
      
   As long as you get above 10-100K numbers it will be much faster to   
   calculate the output on the fly instead of loading it from a disk file.   
      
   Terje   
      
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