(Although this is a good idea...) I think we should specifically AVOID adding
substantial new functionality to the prime95/mprime program itself. Instead,
where possible, this new functionality should be implemented by separate
programs. My reasons are:
1. Avoids code bloat for one particular
On 14 Feb 2002, at 19:44, Michael Vang wrote:
I doubt George would be interested in working in a little simple zip
routine when saving/reading save files? It might slow it down too
much
for some folks (although honestly, it takes a fraction of a second to
zip using the lowest
FWIW bzip2 does a significantly better job of compressing save
files than zip, but at the expense of using several times as many
CPU cycles.
I'm doing a QA run on exponent 67108763 keeping interim files at
million iteration intervals, so, by the time I finish, I will have 67
save
files.
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:55:00PM +, Russel Brooks wrote:
My save files are @1.5M in size. I could save quite a few before
space was any concern (too me).
Mine are @7M -- and I'm of those who prefer speed and sound level (two
Ultra160 SCSI 1rpm 18.2GB disks, in RAID-1, both very quiet)
My home office has among other things a Compaq RAID array of 5 36GB
drives and a few 18GB/9GB as well. MAN OH MAN that thing gets loud!
If it weren't for all the other machines and the fan that blows straight
on all of them, those drives would drive me nuts. As it is, everything
else combined
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:54:41PM -0800, Aaron Blosser wrote:
I doubt George would be interested in working in a little simple zip
routine when saving/reading save files?
AFAIK, most of the space is due to the data being stored in floating-point
format instead of integer. There was some talk
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From: Aaron Blosser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I doubt George would be interested in working in a little simple zip
routine when saving/reading save files? It might slow it down too
much
for some folks (although honestly, it takes a fraction of a second to
zip using the
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:47:23AM +, Russel Brooks wrote:
How about a Prime95 option where it makes a daily backup for you,
saved to a datestamp fileid? It could save them to a subdirectory
with the exponent name. That would make it easy for the user to
do a cleanup occasionally.
Those
