From: Byron Sonne (blsonne@rogers.com)
Date: Fri Jan 23 2004 - 14:33:13 EST
> Are thoses specs right? Dual 1.4 g4's getting almost 17k cps? Is this right?
> Its almost 3x a 3.2ghz p4. I It would be interesting to see what a dual g5
> 2ghz would get if a asm core was written for it.
Especially since, as I understand it, the Gx/PPC line does
honest-to-goodness real vector processing (is that the altivec stuff?)
whereas the x86 arch only approximates it using the MMX instruction set,
and not as well either. Not sure what kinda hassles would be added for
assembly and ML in order to take advantage of the Mac CPUs special
abilities.
I suppose that is why Macs are rather nicer at high end video and audio
tasks but whether that same advantage could be applied to crypto I'm not
sure. I would appreciate a good schooling on this, if anyone knows
firsthand or has some good, relevant links.
If I ever get rich, my next, big treat will be a dual G5 running some
kind of free 'nix.
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