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Date:      Sat, 3 Aug 1996 23:09:12 +0300 (EET DST)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Cc:        garyh@agora.rdrop.com, kline@tera.com, kline@tera.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Mersenne Primes
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960803230805.218M-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <199608031941.PAA17213@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu>

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On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Joel Ray Holveck wrote:

> 
>  >> I guess it would be asking a bit much for a P5 to go up against an
>  >> XMP (or whatever it was that Slowinski used).
>  > There was some data in the first announcement that I saw about the
>  > project (or perhaps on the web site) that *in this application* 4
>  > Pentium 133(?)s = one Cray.
> 
> Is this factoring in code optimized for a Cray?  On typical mundane
> code, the Cray is nothing spectacular; just for code that has been
> vectorized.

Perhaps it can't be vectorized? Would it actually be possible to 
vestorize prime searcing programs?

	Sander

> 
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> http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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