Title: Mersenne: Vaxen & Intel
Didn't some Vaxen come with vector array processors? Wouldn't this speed up some aspects of the LL testing (such as frequency domain squarings)?
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Shaun Griffith, Texas Instruments
At 10:29 PM 10/12/99 -0500, Ken Kriesel wrote:
> What sort algorithm are those figures for? In what programming language?
>Which compiler?
It was insertion sort, based on Bentley's pseudocode, so it was the same
algorithm. I coded it in Pascal, he did it in C. I used Stony Brook
Pascal+ ver
At 12:03 PM 1999/10/12 -0400, Jud McCranie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>At 12:54 PM 10/12/99 +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
>>"John R Pierce" wrote:
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>> > a year on one of these [a vax] wouldn't equal one day on a pentium-II.
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>>Probably a bit generous there even, given that older vaxen wouldn't
>>h
