Hi,
At 04:58 PM 5/20/2001 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>What exponent ranges are fully optimized for P4 at this time?
All of them. I may be able to optimize a little bit more, but don't expect
more than a few percent improvement.
>Is their a schedule for further releases.
No. If a bug is found in the beta you can expect a fix
quickly. Otherwise, I'll
do either one of two things: Add a few new bells and whistles, do some QA
and release it soon OR take some extra time to add harder features and
consequently release it later.
>Is there a chance for further optimization for a P3?
An interesting question.... Some of what I've learned about the P4's
bottlenecks
may apply to the P3 as well! I'll need to run some tests. If these tests are
encouraging it might be possible to speed up the P3 code 25% (wild guess).
One problem. I don't own a P3. Cheapskate that I am, I've looked at upgrading
my overclocked Celeron 300A to a Celeron 600 (hopefully overclocking it to
900).
I can do this for about $90 - not a bad deal at all. The Celeron 600 has the
same internals as the P3 except for a smaller L2 cache.
I'll keep y'all posted.
Regards,
George
P.S. I'll also examine the Athlon docs so that any P3 optimizations will
likely help there too.
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