On Fri, 14 May 1999, Aaron Blosser wrote:
> It does seem lopsided that your 486 takes 2 weeks to do what one of those
> beastly PIII-550's can do in 12 hours (just a guess), but that's still 12
> hours less, and that beastly CPU can do a lot more LL iterations in that
> time, so you'd still be contributing to the effort.
On a related note, I've found that for LL testing, the speed of a
Pentium MMX and a Pentium II is about the same adjusted for clock speed,
but for factoring, the P-II seems to finish in about half the time.
This indicates to me that there's room for more improvement, though how
that would work in details isn't clear, since I couldn't find the source
for the factoring part of the program when I looked.
--
Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/
`Can you count, Banjo?' He looked smug. `Yes, miss. On m'fingers, miss.'
`So you can count up to ...?' Susan prompted.
`Thirteen, miss,' said Banjo proudly. Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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