>> Sorry to bother you people with this but can anybody tell me why my celeron
>> 400 all of a sudden slows to (almost) half speed when it reaches the
>> 1,000,000,000 (actually a little more, i guess it's around 2^30) mark in
>> factoring numbers??? My p233mmx slows about 15 percent.
> I'm just guessing, but it could be that the Celeron's smaller cache gets
> filled up.
Doubtful, since the LL remainder never goes above Mp. The only thing that
inherantly increases is the iteration count, which takes up about log_2(p)
bits. Not that much...
-Lucas Wiman
P.S. 2^30 is ~100,000,000
not ~1,000,000
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