Re: Mersenne: AMD K7 will "smoke" Intel FPU?

[Mark James]

Bojan Antonovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Yes. It was my question to George about the advantages of MMX and 3DNow!
> What we realy need are processors wich can handle FPU operations very quickly.
> In an interprocessoral benchmark I saw that an Aplha 21264 512 MHz is a much 
> faster than an Intel 400 MHz and an MIPS 250 MHz double as fast as the Alpha.
> 
> Sony Playstation has got a MIPS. So what about GIMPS at Playstation ???

The Playstation doesn't do floating point.  It would be a very slow
platform for running GIMPS. :)

     M.