> Accccckkkkkk!  That was rather inexact wording.  Let me try again...my
> Celeron 400 based systems crunch exponents in the 384K FFT range at about
> the same speed as George's PII-400 machine.  However, at the 448K FFT size,
> George's machine appears to be 20% or more faster than my Celeron 400s.
> Could the 128K L2 cache of the Celeron chips (vs. the 512K L2 cache of the
> PIIs) be the culprit?

I think so.  Yves Gallot mentioned something similar on the Primes-L list
a while ago.

This brings us to an interesting point.  Should the primenet server start
default assigning celeron's <384K FFT mersennes, and save the larger ones
for PII's/PIII's?

-Lucas

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