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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:34:10 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Prime] prime95 version 23
>
> On Sunday 22 October 2006 20:00, david eddy wrote:
> > Where can I dowload version 23?
>
> Is it not in the same place as the v24 stuff? Probably p95v23x.exe or
> p9523x.zip where x is a 1 or 2 digit number (pick the highest available).
> (I take it you're a windoze user...)
>
> I think (please check this) ftp://mersenne.org/gimps/p95v238.zip
This works thankyou very much
> If you're completely stuck I'll mail you a copy as I've kept an archive of
> old
> versions (for all operating systems, from about v18).
I would like a version which runs on DOS if you could send one!
>
> > For my pentium II it is faster than v24 apparently
>
> Hmm, I don't think it's much faster. In fact v24 should be as fast or faster
> for factoring (due to reduced limits if nothing else), which is the most
> sensible way to employ a PII, PIII or Celeron based on these technologies
> these days.
This is taken from "whatsnew.txt":
<<
New features in Version 24.6 of prime95.exe
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1) Athlon users should see a 20% to 30% speed increase.
2) Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III users should see dramatically WORSE
performance. Run version 23 instead.
>>
>From benchmarks for a PII 400 doing a 896K FFT I find 0.686s for v24
and 0.529s for v23.
106 days instead of 137.
Many thanks,
David Eddy
>
> Regards
> Brian Beesley
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