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From: Timothy Reaves <reaves@unix.asb.com>
Subject: [VA] Math in SmallTalk or in C DLL's?
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Has anyone looked into the difference between doing math in
VA SmallTalk (OS/2) vs. having the routines in a C DLL and calling 
them from a script? Im talking specifically about statistic calc-
ulations on a data series of between 600 and 10,000 members? With
the overhead in VA of converting data types, vs. the speed of C,
I could see either possibility.

     Any help appreciated.
