On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Brian J. Beesley wrote: > On 16 Sep 99, at 18:35, Lucas Wiman wrote: > > > > This brings us to an interesting point. Should the primenet server start > > default assigning celeron's <384K FFT mersennes, and save the larger ones > > for PII's/PIII's? > > No. Whatever the problem was (I _did_ manage to duplicate it on my > Celeron 366 laptop using v18 - a 448K FFT was actually _slower_ than > a 512K FFT on the same system!) v19 does not suffer from it. And the > PrimeNet server doesn't recognise a Celeron unless v19 is running - > in v18, all P6 architecture chips are identified as Pentium Pros. So I guess I should have my Celery's test larger exponents, at least until I upgrade to V19...;-) Kel _________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
