2008/11/26 Tobias Burnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Emmanuel Fleury wrote:
>>> Username : (**********)
>>> Password : (**********)
>>> Date of Birth :
>>> Future Password : (************)(Option)
>>
>> Do they really think that it will succeed ???
>> I guess not.
>
> I guess they do. For spam, the reply rate might be as low as low as 1 in
> 12 million, for pishing (if cleverly done) the number is probably
> higher. For spam see:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/10/storm_botnet_spam_economics/
>
> * * *
>
> To have something less off topic: I find it quite interesting, how much
> the benchmark results between the same two compilers vary on different
> platforms. Compared with Absoft Fortran, GCC/gfortran 4.3 is by the
> following percentages slower:
>
> 0.2% 32bit on Vista64 on Intel XEON
> 21% 32bit on Vista AMD X2
> 6% 64bit on Linux64 on Intel XEON
> 16% 64bit on Linux64 on AMD X2
>
> (http://www.polyhedron.com/compare0html)
> (See also "Errors on your web page" thread in gcc@/fortran@)
>
> While the bottleneck programs vary a lot, fatigue and gas_dyn are slow
> on all platforms (incl. on AMD Athlon64, where other compilers are up to
> almost twice as fast). If we are lucky, the middle-end array work by
> Richard plus the single-function-decl patch will fix that ...
>
> Tobias
>
Why not testing w64, too?
Kai
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