[CLN-list] A good PC hardware for CLN ?

Richard B. Kreckel kreckel at ginac.de
Tue Jan 24 22:45:39 CET 2006


Fabrice Marchant wrote:

>  Hi !
>
>  I used CLN lib on linux debian Woody and try now libcln3 on debian Sarge ( on a Athlon T-Bird 1GHz 400Mo RAM ).
>I think to buy a more recent PC computer.
>What kind of PC for CLN - processor INTEL or AMD - to execute speedly integer computations ?
>Is motherboard worthy ?
>  
>
Even without x86-64 Assembler code, the use of 64 bit Digits gives an 
very impressive performance gain. If you buy such a machine, make sure 
to run int in 64 bit userland if arbitrary precision arithmetic is 
important for what you're doing.

Regards
-richy.

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Richard B. Kreckel
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