Hi,
At 06:18 AM 8/18/2001 -0700, Gerry Snyder wrote:
>If I don't get any answers, I'll find out in a month when the program
>gets to the ECM entry in the to-do list (currently 100 curves for M751
>with B1=44,000,000), but I have no idea whether that will take hours or
>months on a 1 GHz P3.
If I recall correctly, you can roughly expect one hour per curve. Also as
a very rough guide if you double the exponent, it will take somewhat more
than twice the time.
>Since mprime now uses intermediate files for ECM
>IIRC, I don't need to worry about crashes or other system shutdowns,
Correct.
Have fun,
George
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