> The Intel code is very highly optimised. From the figures given on
> the manual checkout page and my results to date a 270MHz UltraSPARC
> runs like a 120MHz Pentium. But that's only becuase I've tweaked the
> compiler options will help from people on this list. Initially it
> was performing more like a 90Mhz Pentium. I had over a 1000 hours
> at the lower speed before recompiling.
You could do factoring, the margin between factoring on a PC and an
UltraSPARC should be much slimmer than LL tests.
> When I joined I didn't have any idea what the differences between a
> Pentium and an UltraSPARC would be in this work.
The UltraSPARC would probably significantly outperform a similar megahertz
PC, if we had similarly optimized code running on each. I know my friend's
SPARC (running at 233 mhz, bus 233 mhz) sure does outperform my PII (running
at 233 mhz, bus 66 mhz) on most things.
-Lucas
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