From: utzoo!henry Newsgroups: hacknews Title: 9700(1) speeded up Article-I.D.: utzoo.2435 Posted: Tue Aug 31 21:01:42 1982 Received: Tue Aug 31 21:01:42 1982 Out of curiousity, I tried running the C profiler on 9700(1) to find out what makes it so slow. It was spending most of its time clearing its internal data structures; I made some simple changes to that piece of code and the program now runs 3-4 times as fast as it used to.