Surely only if the total time gained for all clients is greater than the total time to separate, optimize, and maintain multiple versions of the code.
Erle http://GANNS.com Games, Science, Technology, Humor Tell your friends about GANNS.com or I will cut you in the face. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John R Pierce > Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 10:35 AM > To: The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search list > Subject: Re: [Prime] Unexpected and baffling problem > > > George, perhaps it would be a Good Idea in v24 to check for > Athlon or > > P4 CPU; if the CPU is something else (tm), print a warning that > > performance may be impaired, point out where to download > v23.x and ask > > for confirmation to continue running. > > I wonder if the time has come to chop the core logic up into > several CPU > specific DLLs, and load the appropriate one for the hosting > hardware ? This > would prevent excessive memory footprints (although, > actually, Windows at least only loads 4K code pages which are > actually executed, so having it all statically linked into > one large .EXE isn't as much of a penalty as one might think, > especially if the major sections are forced to 4K boundries). > > _______________________________________________ > Prime mailing list > [email protected] > http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime > _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
