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		Sean1708 on Sept 28, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Recursive fibonacci benchmark using top languages ... I would be very very surprised if printing "2971215073" accounted for more than 1 second of runtime.

gambler on Sept 28, 2018 [–]

Well, I know that printing stuff to console can be ridiculously slow, so this doesn't surprise me much.

Sean1708 on Oct 3, 2018 | [–]

An entire second to print 10 characters?! How does a terminal that slow even exist?

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