Would sieving speed up with 64-bits
I'll ask this question 'cause I've got a hold of my first opteron, and the fact that intel is coming out with a compatible x86-64 arch soon, if microsoft releases an OS anytime soon we'll be seeing 64-bitness everywhere.
What kind of speed up would be expected by 64 bit version of the sieve software (or factoring or sbclient even) if any? Will the larger amount of registers help also?
Heres my current output with proth sieve .42
Opteron 242 (1600MHz) 508kps(@277700) (linux 64 bit) 1024k
Athlon XP 2100 (1737MHz) 512kps (@277700) (linux 32 bit) 256k
Athlon XP 2500(1837MHz)520kps(@277700) (windows 2k) 512k
Thanks, peter
Oh, yea, I'll also add that I get slightly faster speeds using the cmov_sse2 client on the opteron versus the plain cmov version, that did seem odd to me for I've heard the opteron has a rather slow SSE2 implimentation compared to intel.
well we got 64-bit processor already
well, how about Macintosh client?
G5 is first 64-bit processor, and it blazing fast in d.NET project. So 64 bit can do a lot for 17oB!
Re: well we got 64-bit processor already
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Originally posted by Death
well, how about Macintosh client?
It may be fast, but I dont see enough users for it to be feaseable for 17oB, for x86 on the other hand, a good portion of the processors next year will be 64-bit compatable.