I'm running Prime95 on a 600 MHz PIII tower PC (double-checking).
When the machine is otherwise idle, the 'per iteration time' is fairly consistent on any one day, but can vary quite a bit from week to week.
Recently, it's been around .47 sec, but at times it's down to .39 or so.
it can also vary depending on alignment of the various code pages in physical memory, and how they affect the 'TLB' and cache alignment, and other arcane virtual memory things, which is SO random as to be beyond anyones control.
of course, different exponents will take different iteration times too. My p4-2.53 is currently seeing around 0.053 seconds/iteration on exponents in the 2.36 million range. The one it was working on a couple of weeks ago were more like 0.047 ...
a P4-1.6Ghz at work with a crappier chipset is seeing 0.126 on 2.34 million range exponents, note thats far worse than the clock ratios would imply.
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