Past tense. "Ordered". But, our institution has currently implemented a freeze on standard equipment purchases (due to a 15% state-wide cut in education funding). So, I'm waiting...
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Me too!! > > Did you say you were ordering one of these? > > Bill. > > 2009/3/5 Jason Martin <jason.worth.mar...@gmail.com>: >> >>> I've got a 4.4c/l , Agner Fog's says the thruput on 64 bit mul is 4c/l , but >>> in another section it says you can issue one every cycle , if the latter >>> section means 32bit then , 4c/l could be right ( I say could not would as >>> consider the K8) , I expect I can do a bit better than 4.4c/l , but who >>> knows.A lot of the speed comes from reducing the overhead in mul_basecase. >>> >>> It quite a wide cpu , I would expect the combined functions(like addlsh1) to >>> make a real difference on it. >> >> I've measure it directly to be 4 cycles per mul for sustained 64-bit >> multiplies on core2, which agrees with Agner Fog. Even though there >> are 3 ALU issue ports on the core2, only one of them can issue the >> 64-bit mul. >> >> By the way, I ended up sitting next to an Intel hardware engineer on a >> recent trans-atlantic flight. He assured me that the Core i7 can >> perform sustained 64-bit multiplies at 1 cycle each. Of course, I'll >> need to try this myself to believe it, but I'm pretty excited to get >> my hands on the hardware. >> >> --jason >> - Show quoted text - >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
