Re: [TCLUG:3846] rc5 speed on linux

[Joseph Heil <heilja@dbsource.com>]

Quoting Eric Hillman (ehillman@cccu.com):
> 
> 	It's all integer math (so far as I know), but the newer rc5 clients make
> use of the Intel MMX instruction sets, giving them a serious edge as far as
> rc5 goes.
> 	The folks at distributed.net'll tell you though, that keycracking speed
> isn't really a good measure of processor performance, though.  RISC chips
> tend to suffer, for example, even though RISC chips are, so they tell me,
> far more efficient at most computing tasks than x86's.


  If your courious, check out the client processor stats pages

	http://www.distributed.net/speed/

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