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Brian Edmonds (brian@gweep.bc.ca)
Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:17:40 -0700
Robin Johnson <robbat2@home.com> writes:
> Hmm, I wonder how many 486's i need to challenge Ya`akovs RC5 scores?
I realize this was almost certainly tongue in cheek, but for the sake of
reference, the answer would be one hell of a lot. From past experience
with a range of hardware, a 486DX cracks about as many thousand keys per
second as it has megahertz, while a P2/300 does about 800kkeys/s. So if
Ya`akov is running[1] half a dozen 600MHz machines, you're looking at
about 10GHz of 486 processing power, or 100 486DX2/100 machines.
Or from a different vantage point, a P2 processor does about three times
as much work per clock cycle as a 486 does. A P3 isn't a significantly
different core architecture, so it should be similar.
Brian.
[1] Please don't bother to correct me with the exact hardware specs,
Ya`akov, my numbers are close enough. :)
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