Re: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #843

2001-04-26 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On 26 Apr 2001, at 6:34, Hans Riesel wrote: Hi everybody, If 2^p-1 is known to be composite with no factor known, then so is 2^(2^p-1)-1. Much as I hate to nitpick a far better mathematician than myself, this is seems to be an overstatement. It is certainly true that, for composite c,

Re: Mersenne: More P4 timings

2001-04-26 Thread Guillermo Ballester Valor
Hi: George Woltman wrote: I just completed my first 512K FFT using the new SSE2 instructions! The 512K FFT handles exponents up to 10.3 million. Timings are as follows: 1.4GHz P4, old code:0.126 sec. 1.4GHz P4, new code:0.048 sec.

Re: Mersenne: More P4 timings

2001-04-26 Thread gsi26549
At 08:07 PM 4/26/01 +0200, you wrote: [sniped] 1.4GHz P4, old code:0.126 sec. 1.4GHz P4, new code:0.048 sec. 1.2GHz Athlon, 133MHz DDR: 0.084 sec. I have a few more optimizations up my sleeve. I think my goal of 0.040

Re: Mersenne: More P4 timings

2001-04-26 Thread George Woltman
Hi again, At 07:52 PM 4/26/2001 +, Brian J. Beesley wrote: As opposed to 10.32 million with the 8087 code? If so, that's pretty good - I thought you might have lost more precision than that. I haven't figured out the upper limits yet. I expect the limits to be roughly what Ernst Mayer's