The P4 at 1.5 GHz is just the beginning of a sequence of ever faster
processors which I think will dominate the market for a long time
to come, and, yes, with RDRAM giving much improved memory
performance, which should give Prime95 a real kick.
A review of the chip from this perspective can be found at:
http://www.gamepc.com/reviews/hardware_review.asp?review=pentium4&page=1&msc
ssid=&tp=
So, make a P4 version as fast as possible, using 33MB if that would be
enough.
My 2 kopecks, anyway!
Best Wishes,
Stefanovic
> A question for readers. Prime95 currently uses about 8MB (exponent
> around 11 million). How would you feel if the P4 optimized version
> used 13MB? 23MB? 33MB?
>
> I hate to code up 3 versions of the P4 code (small, medium, large),
> but it might be necessary.
>
> Regards,
> George
>
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