Re: Mersenne: Idea for running prim95

1999-04-18 Thread lrwiman
All, yes, you can set the shell to command.com or prime95, or whatever. There is another way to interact with the system, you can do this by pressing Ctrl+Esc to bring up the tasks menu. From there, you can run any program that you want to. This seems like it might increase the system resourc

Re: Mersenne: Re: Compiler Optimisations

1999-04-18 Thread Jean-Charles Meyrignac
> >And that is precisely why it *is* possible to have a compiler do the following > >1. produce code that has processor specific opcodes >2. produce code that is optimised for different processor architectures > - both in terms of execution & pipelining units, taking advantage of out >of order & s

Re: Mersenne: factor

1999-04-18 Thread BJ . Beesley
>>> Why factors prime95 only up to 59 bit at exponnent which are for >>> doublechecking? >>> >>> The other (9million) are up to 62 bit. >>> >>> Why is that so? > >> Because the large the number, the more factoring is worth doing before >> changing over to the computationally expensive LL test. Le

Mersenne: Re: Compiler Optimisations

1999-04-18 Thread Gordon Spence
>Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:08:56 +0200 >From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Mersenne: Re: preventive measures > [snip] > >You have an entirely wrong picture of what assembly is. Assembly is the >most high level programming language existing. It is _not_ a portable language >

Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #546

1999-04-18 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 at 09:17:38 -0700, Scott Kurowski wrote: >I've been working with developers of several client ports. > >Chris Smith is about 90% done with a PrimeNet client for UNIX and >Alphas based on MacLucasUNIX. We'll probably start testing with the >live server in early May. Until then