Re: Mersenne: v19 and priorities

1999-12-18 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On 17 Dec 99, at 16:35, Gordon Bower wrote: > Something strange happened, though. Version 19 slows down considerably > more in response to my doing other low-demand things on my machine, > reading email/web browsing/etc. Is this just in the nature of v19, > something to do with the optimizations

Mersenne: v19 and priorities

1999-12-17 Thread Gordon Bower
I recently decided to start switching over from v18 to v19 (yes, I know I could have months ago, but I thought I'd give the rest of you time to find all the bugs first.) I did notice a performance improvement -- about 8% on a 350 doing LL tests, about 2% on an old P-120 doing double-checks. As th