We're having a bit of fun here at work. It all started with one of the guys setting up a Hackintosh and we were wondering whether it was faster than a Windows Box of (nearly) same specs that we have. So we decided to write a little test for it. Just a simple Prime number calculator. It's written in Java and tells us the time it takes to calculate the first n Prime numbers.
Optimised version below - now takes ~6.6secs
public class Primes {
public static void main(String[] args) {
int topPrime = 150000;
int current = 2;
int count = 0;
int lastPrime = 2;
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
while (count < topPrime) {
boolean prime = true;
int top = (int)Math.sqrt(current) + 1;
for (int i = 2; i < top; i++) {
if (current % i == 0) {
prime = false;
break;
}
}
if (prime) {
count++;
lastPrime = current;
}
if (current == 2) {
current++;
} else {
current = current + 2;
}
}
System.out.println("Last prime = " + lastPrime);
System.out.println("Total time = " + (double)(System.currentTimeMillis() - start) / 1000);
}
}
We've pretty much lost the plot of the whole Hackintosh vs PC thing and are just having some fun with optimising it. First attempt with no optimisations (the above code has a couple) ran around 52.6min to find the first 150000 prime numbers. This optimisation is running around 47.2mins.
If you want to have a go and post your results, then stick em up.
Specs for the PC I'm running it on are Pentium D 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM, running Ubuntu 8.04.
Best Optimisation so far has been the square root of current, first mentioned by Jason Z.
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