George wrote:
> Prime95 (LL, ECM, and factoring), Proth, and I suspect SETI are mostly
> floating point. Conrad Curry's NFS program, ECM-NET, and the encryption
> cracking are probably mostly integer operations.
ECMNET is virtually entirely integer work. The GMP library which underlies
it is *very* heavily optimized integer code on the Intel architecture.
> Of course, you have to weigh that against which projects you find
> most worthwhile and fun.
Very true! I find ECMNET worthwhile and fun, but I'm biased.
Paul
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