Re: Speed problem with 1.03 on Mac G4

> The dual-G5 Xserve is about 9 gigaflops, for $2,000. That's $222 per 
> gigaflop . A company called Orion Multisystems have just announced a 
> workstation offering between 18 and 36 gigaflops for about $9,000.... 
> Works out at between $250 and $500 per  gigaflop. But I wonder what 
> sort of hashing performance it would give?;

I have absolutely no idea.  The gigaflop is a (crude) measure of FPU 
performance, and hashcash doesn't touch the FPU at all.  The Efficeon 
is a weird chip, too, and it's very hard to predict how any particular 
code will perform on it.  It's even difficult to benchmark it, because 
it changes the code out from under you by dynamic optimisation.

It's probably safe to say, however, that each Efficeon chip will be 
considerably slower than each G5 chip, seeing as the G5 stands head and 
shoulders above everything else in sight, and benchmarks show the 
Efficeon as being slower than most of it's rivals.

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