Louis Towles wrote:
> Don't give up on those 24,000 PII hours yet - they can factor, it only
> floating point math that messes with the video (ati rage pro I think?)
This reminds me, could it be possible to press more CPU-power from existing
equipment by utilizing different parts of the processor at the same time... eg.
having the FPU work on LL-tests while the integer-side tries trial factoring is
a good example. Would the cache losses far outweight any advantage, are the
LL-tests for example using also all of the integer-side or would it be a
surefire way to lead your CPU into quick heat-death..? Also, while a simple test
could be run by multitasking I doubt most schedulers could take this into
account, nor do I in fact know if any computers can operate one or both
pipelines while doing FPU calc.
-Donwulff
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