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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Arvin Meyer [SMTP:onsite@esinet.net]
>Sent: Friday, May 23, 1997 10:39 AM
>To: deschall@gatekeeper.megasoft.com
>Subject: Re: win95
>
>I ran some tests last night and this morning. The 200MHz P5 running under
>DESgui 1.2 ran all night (with nothing else running except the blank screen
>saver) and got 2 different time sets:
>
>2126/2127secs on 2^30 and
>2155/2156secs on 2^30
>
>I was asleep, and nothing changed at all. There was no pattern to which
>times ran when. I have no explanation for the difference in times. Even the
>power supply on this machine is filtered through a UPC.
>
>This morning I ran another test to see if running 2 instances of the
>program would increase the total number of calculations. It did not, on my
>single processor. The overall performance degrade was approximately 2%.
>That is, it took slightly more than twice the time to run each. BUT, I'd be
>interested in knowing what similar tests would produce on a dual processor
>machines, especially with machines running NT or other OS's capable of
>multithreading.
>
>Arvin Meyer
>onsite@esinet.net
>
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>> From: Delphin <gt1951a@prism.gatech.edu>
>> To: deschall@gatekeeper.megasoft.com
>> Subject: Re: win95
>> Date: Friday, May 23, 1997 9:50 AM
>>
>> Jason Gmoser wrote:
>> >
>> > On Thu, 22 May 1997 23:04:25 -0400, you wrote:
>> >
>> > >I have a P150 w/ win95 and can do 2^30 keys in <2900 with no other
>apps
>> > >running...
>> >
>> > When in Linux my P200 can do 2^30 key pairs in 2040 seconds ('95 gets
>2050 or
>> > so)... :) It beats the performance of the bitslice code on a 233MHz
>alpha that
>> > I have access to... The alpha can do 600K k/s. Crazy, no?
>> >
>> that's fairly fast...my roommates P200 does 2?^30 in about 2300 in
>> win95...I'm surprised that Linux really isn't that much faster than
>> win95...
>> --
>> Adam H. Hirschel
>> Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
>> Internet: gt1951a@prism.gatech.edu Campus Phone #1627
>> "The sleep of reason breeds monsters" -Goya