On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 05:53:25AM +0000, Brian J. Beesley wrote: > SSE2. This exists in P4 but not in Athlon. The point is that SSE2 allows > double-precision floating-point operations to be run in parallel; and > Prime95/mprime makes extensive use of double-precision floating-point > operations.
People keep saying that in this thread and it's just not true. The Athlon 64 has SSE2 and it doesn't give a big performance boost. The P4 just has a design that's particularly well suited to Prime95/mprime. _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
