>
> > 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.
>
>Still, the CPU time required to write one line to the display is
>considerably less than that required to execute one iteration of an
>LL test on a large exponent.
I just did a test as George suggested. The average ratio for the with
results at every 1 iteration came out to be .540 per for .487 every 100
iterations. I'm running a PIII 600 megahertz and I didn't realize that I had
my webbrowser open when I ran the test which seriously invalidates the
results. I might run a test again later when I get a chance but right now it
looks like George is right.
Sincerely,
Joshua Zelinsky
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