On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, John R Pierce wrote:
>> I feel it is ridiculous that George has to beg/borrow the latest
>> architecture in order to optimise Prime95. I also know from being a member
>> of the prime search community for the last three years the amount of hard
>> work George puts into the pro
> I feel it is ridiculous that George has to beg/borrow the latest
> architecture in order to optimise Prime95. I also know from being a member
> of the prime search community for the last three years the amount of hard
> work George puts into the project.
agreed. how come AMD isn't burying Geo
Can I put a suggestion to the group..
I feel it is ridiculous that George has to beg/borrow the latest
architecture in order to optimise Prime95. I also know from being a member
of the prime search community for the last three years the amount of hard
work George puts into the project.
The P
George wrote:
<<
For those Athlon owners that are not seeing a speed boost, try setting
CpuSupportsPrefetch=1
>>
I also needed to do this on my C700 under WinMe to get
the expected speed boost. Timings dropped from 0.260 sec
at 640K to 0.188 sec. Nice work!
Alas, my dual-p3 office wo
From: George Woltman
> I've added these hints to prime95 and
> am getting about a 20% performance boost.
My turn to report! :-)
v20v21
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p3/850 0.301 0.215
p3/515 0.398 0.309
The 515 is a slightly overclocked 500Mhz processor. Both machines are
running
At 03:26 18.06.2001, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
> Now the bad news. The Athlon also supports these memory prefetch
>instructions but the one user who tried it reported no gain. Also, the new
>executable may also be slightly slower on the P-II and Celeron 1 as it must
>ignore these prefetch in