Joshua Zelinsky wrote on Tuesday, March 06, 2001 at 17:08:37 -0500 :
> The list has been pretty quiet lately...
Could it be that's because everyone is holding their breath for prime95 v21?
But that might still take quite a while, since AFAIK no public announcement has been
made about its scheduled completion date. Of course, that date would depend on the
intended new features. Still, some indication would useful -- say, between 3 and 9
months from now?? Personally, it would help me in deciding whether to continue
translating the v20 readme file into my language (Dutch), or to wait for the new
stuff.
Hey, how about calling it primeXP? It would allow the new user to run only 50
iterations, after which time registration is mandatory. We would have to uglify (is
that good English?) the user interface however, to make the whole thing believable.
And, existing software should no longer be able to execute with our new version.
Those two criteria may be quite hard for us to fulfill. What software company could
we ask to implement those changes for us?
The Good Thing (TM) would be, that no new features would be necessary. But then we'd
have to charge a lot of money for the product. The revenues could go to Bill Gates'
family -- to help them extend their house.
> This is a little embarrassing but ...
That's quite allright, this is a private conversation, right? :-)
> I was thinking of switching my iterations between screen outputs to 1 for Prime95,
just to make it "feel faster."
Actually, I have several alternative suggestions to make it, how did you put it,
'feel faster'? Do something fun. Don't look at prime95's output. Go read a good
book. Go on a long vacation. You name it.
> However, I wasn't sure how much resources it would take up. I checked and it seems
negligible. Is that true?
If you say so. You say you checked, right?
But, seriously: yes, a first time LL test on a new exponent would complete about as
fast with "iterations between screen outputs" = 1.
> Are there any other reasons to set the number that low?
You tell me -- are there?
Hope this answers your question. It doesn't answer mine.
Cheers,
Robert.
P.S. Sorry for this lame response, but I was getting bored looking at prime95's
screen output. ;-)
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