On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Michael Bell wrote:
> Warning on K6's: As far as GIMPS is concerned they're not too good, because
> the FPU is about half the speed of the Intel Pentium FPU. (If you run RC5
> then they're as good, if not better, because they have very good integer
> units).
K6 is not good at RC5 either; see http://www.pcbenchmarks.com/distribu.htm
I've heard that RC5 requires some kind of rotate function that is
hardwired on Intel processors but not on K6 and Alpha.
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