On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:44:57 -0500, George Woltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > At 06:24 PM 2/27/2005, you wrote: > > Thanks, I didn't even know about the FTP server. I'm curious, are beta > > builds of Prime95 for testing purposes only, or can they be used in the > > 10 mil. digit prime search? > > Version 24.6 has been used by dozens of users for months without problem. You > can use it for searching for 10 million digit primes. > > In general, version 24.6 is 20% faster for Athlons, somewhat slower for > P3s, and > no different for P4s. It also fixes a somewhat rare GCD crash bug in Linux.
George, Is the slowdown for the PIII significant enough for you to consider splitting the code for them and other non-SSE2 686 machines? Nathan _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
