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Subject: Re: liquid cooled 2.5 Ghz G5

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 09:35:44 06/18/04

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On June 18, 2004 at 04:26:48, Joshua Shriver wrote:

>A friend of mine has a G5 and he ran crafty 19.12's Bench for me a while back.
>I have a dual G4 533mhz and I get around 400-420k nps..
>
>His single G5 get's around 1.5million nps..
>can you imagine a cluster of these badboys hehe :) and his was a first
>generation G5... can't imagine once the 3ghz comes out, and that's with crafty's
>basic code... not 64bit or PPC asm cores...

Crafty does not have an ASM core per say, only a few routines are optimized (for
example, BSF/BSR).  C compilers today are good enough that assembly will not
give you much anyway, unless maybe your name is Frans Morsch.

anthony

>If there was asm cores in crafty for PPC as their are in Opteron, x86 I'd be
>even more amazed... this is just strictly C (c++ for egtb) code using pthread
>and MUTEX and I hear MUTEX is slower.
>
>Sincerely,
>Joshua Shiver
>
>
>
>>
>>Agree, I would love to see what numbers crafty gets on the new liquid cooled 2.5
>>Ghz G5 PowerMac:
>>
>>http://www.apple.com/powermac/
>>
>>regards
>>Andy



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