Hello Debian M68k, I have made a very small benchmark of aranym and crest: Here the results:
The host is a Pentium 4 at 3.20GHz with 1Gb RAM. aranym version is 0.9.4beta-3 The benchmark has been run three time on each hardware. host-i386: host running debian-i386 host-amd64: host running debian-amd64 crest: crest.debian.org, 68060 at 50MHz aranym-i386: aranym running on debian-i386 aranym-amd64: aranym running on debian-amd64 wget : downloading a 2Mb tarball with wget tar zxf: unpacking a 2Mb tarball rm -r : deleting the tree in the tarball MPQS : number crunching+file access galois : number crunching+data handling wget tar zxf rm -r MPQS galois ============================================================= host-i386 3.313s 0.371s 0.036s 249 ms. 93 ms. host-i386 6.022s 0.209s 0.020s 248 ms. 93 ms. host-i386 2.795s 0.211s 0.021s 252 ms. 91 ms. host-amd64 3.552s 0.354s 0.047s 267 ms. 87 ms. host-amd64 2.756s 0.204s 0.033s 262 ms. 84 ms. host-amd64 2.819s 0.216s 0.020s 264 ms. 82 ms. crest 5.325s 26.827s 3.693s 28,160 ms. 10,850 ms. crest 5.152s 26.538s 4.015s 29,070 ms. 10,940 ms. crest 5.215s 24.745s 3.687s 28,590 ms. 10,750 ms. aranym-i386 26.820s 98.640s 8.550s 68,700 ms. 32,290 ms. aranym-i386 14.290s 96.580s 9.040s 68,280 ms. 32,770 ms. aranym-i386 10.590s 97.200s 9.660s 69,250 ms. 32,410 ms. aranym-amd64 13.940s 110.160s 10.230s 66,910 ms. 31,420 ms. aranym-amd64 10.240s 106.880s 10.010s 67,260 ms. 31,080 ms. aranym-amd64 11.820s 110.810s 9.880s 68,390 ms. 31,580 ms. So we see that aranym-amd64 and aranym-i386 are about the same speed, that crest is between 3 and 4 times faster and that the host is between 250 and 400 times faster. On the positive side, the host is not particularly fast by today standard, so I would expect aranym performance on current i386/amd64 type hardware to be close to crest. The benchmark performed is below (it requires the pari-gp package:) (pari.tgz is pari_2.3.1.orig.tar.gz in Debian) #! /bin/sh time wget -q pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unix/pari.tgz time tar zxf pari.tgz time rm -r pari-2.3.1 rm pari.tgz printf "factor(2^128+1);\n##" | gp -q -test printf "galoisinit(x^54+796392*x^36+292918032*x^18+1259712,50477919552);\n##" | gp -q -test Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]