Can I put a suggestion to the group......
I feel it is ridiculous that George has to beg/borrow the latest
architecture in order to optimise Prime95. I also know from being a member
of the prime search community for the last three years the amount of hard
work George puts into the project.
The PIII and Athlon processors have been around now for many months and
indeed, taking a quick look at the stats, over 60% of members are using
either a PIII, AMD or (unspecified type of) Celeron. Imagine the amount of
extra work that could have been done if George would have been able to make
a 20% speed increase for all these people say 6 months ago.
I therefore suggest that a pay pal account (or similar) is set up. People
who wished could easily donate a few dollars to make sure that George has
available to him the latest architecture. I mean, come on, it wouldn't take
too many 'couple of dollars' to buy the latest system board and processor
with each new release of architecture and the benefits to the entire group
would be immense.
I hope George is not offended by this post and ask for discussion.....
Regards,
Lawrence......
<SNIP>
>Are there any Athlon owners that would like to take a crack at
>optimizing the v21 source so that Athlon owners can enjoy a speed boost
too?
>Alternatively, are there any Athlon owners in the Orlando area that might
>be willing to let me use their machine sometime in the next month?
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