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  • Speed up a program for the 50 years old processor by 180000%

    Speed up a program for the 50 years old processor by 180000%

    Introduction In the previous year, I wrote the program, running on Intel’s first microprocessor – 4004, that computes the first 255 digits of π. But, unfortunately, I was not able to beat ENIAC’s achievement with 2035 computed digits 1. So let’s continue our journey. I picked the successor of 4004 – Intel’s 4040. This CPU…