Re: stamp speeds on new hardware

Jonathan Morton <[email protected]> Thu, 22 Dec 2005 17:32:40 +0000
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>> That is one core on the athlon64 so a single athlon64 x2 with both
>> cores slightly outperforms the 2Ghz G5.
>
> Remind me to re-run this on my G5 using a version compiled with  
> GCC4, if possible.  I've found with other programs that GCC4 makes  
> a huge difference to the G5, though much less on G3/G4.  My G5  
> (thanks IBM) has two 2.3GHz CPUs, so should easily beat the A64 again.

I just completed a 40-bit test using old 1.08 binaries.  A 40-bit  
stamp was successfully minted in under 7.5 hours (about half of  
expected), using both CPUs of my 2.3GHz G5.

hashcash token: 1:40:051222:[email protected]::Cu2iqc4SmotZ7MRR:0000214c3J

Now who said Macs were slow?

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