Re: Speed problem with 1.03 on Mac G4

Jonathan Morton wrote:

>> 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.
>
Apple unveiled the new iMac G5 today... All this talk about G5's just 
makes me want to go and buy one! :-)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3613790.stm
*"Apple has unveiled its next generation of desktop computers, the iMac 
G5, at the Apple Expo 2004 in Paris.* It is the first iMac to be powered 
by the high-speed G5 processors, used in its Power Macs, and is touted 
as the world's thinnest desktop computer."