Re: [Nolug] In case you wanted to know how big 2 to the 3,000,000 is...

John D. Tiedeman wrote:
> Alex McKenzie wrote:
>
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 16:43 -0500, Brad Bendily wrote:
>>>
>>>>> It took about 15 minutes on my Athlon(tm) XP 2200+. Shoulda timed it.
>>>
>>> $ time python -c 'print str(2**3000000)'
>>>
>>> real 14m15.753s
>>> user 13m1.612s
>>> sys 0m0.606s
>>>
>>>
>>>> I have a P4 1.4 Ghz machine. I was doing a few other things at the time
>>>> too...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Wed Jun 30 15:49:54 CDT 2004
>>>> 903090
>>>> Wed Jun 30 16:23:23 CDT 2004
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 33 minutes!
>>>
>> This is with an Athlon 750, 768MB@PC133, using 85% cpu with the other
>> bit for F@H
>>
>> $ time python -c 'print str(2**3000000)'
>> 903090
>>
>> real 37m25.302s
>> user 32m4.510s
>> sys 0m0.000s
>>
>> Hmmm....should I spend the $60 to upgrade?
>> --
>> Alex McKenzie alex@boxchain.com http://www.boxchain.com
>>
> On an Athlon 1600+ using the same python program:
> 1590.240u 1.610s 27:11.33 97.5%

So that's 27 mins? OK, so by my calcs:

2200: 855s * 1.8GHz = 1539 G.cycles
1600: 1631s * 1.4GHz = 2283 G.cycles
750: 2245s * 0.75GHz = 1683 G.cycles
P4: 2009s * 1.4GHz = 2812 G.cycles

Looks like I'm sticking with AMD!
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