Hi,
At 03:11 AM 3/7/2001 +0100, Robert van der Peijl wrote:
>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.
I have no idea when a new release will be available. I've done no work on
prime95
from v20 release until last December. Since then all available time has been
devoted to a P4 version of prime95. Much of this has been writing code samples
to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the architecture. This is not
particularly easy - a lot like reverse engineering chip design.
After a P4 recoding, I'll look at what new features to add to a v21 release.
I liked the screensaver ideas recently suggested, but would like to have one
executable that runs like it does now, as a screensaver only, or both.
I've received many other minor suggestions which I dutifully write down and
implement the easiest and/or most useful.
In any event, I cannot imagine a release of v21 in less than 6 months.
>Hey, how about calling it primeXP?
Several versions ago, I thought about renaming prime95 to prime98. However,
the upgrade issues are enormous. I can just imagine hundreds of users
running both prime95 and primeXP on their machine - then a flood of email
questions and hand-holding.
> > I was thinking of switching my iterations between screen outputs to 1
> for Prime95,
>just to make it "feel faster."
> > However, I wasn't sure how much resources it would take up. I checked
> and it seems
>negligible. Is that true?
I'm betting this is a rather significant penalty! You have to use the wall
clock
to time your iterations / minute. Prime95 will report the same time, but it is
only measuring the time to do an iteration, not the additional time to write to
the display.
Have fun,
George
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