At 07:16 AM 8/17/2002 -0700, Gary Edstrom wrote:
>It is my understanding from reading the documentation that setting the
>available memory only affects the P-1 factoring stage and not the main
>LL test.  Is this correct?

Yes.

>The reason I am asking is because of a great difference that I have
>noticed in the iteration time of the LL test on my 2.2GHz desktop and my
>1.0GHz laptop while running comparable sized numbers on both machines.
>I would expect to see the laptop taking a little more than double the
>iteration time of the desktop.  Instead, I am seeing a 5x difference.

The P4 2.2GHz machine uses the SSE2 instructions for a big speed up.
See the http://www.mersenne.org/bench.htm for timings from a wide
variety of machines

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