PowerPCs
- To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
- Subject: PowerPCs
- From: yoda at ele.crl.melco.co.jp (Yoda)
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 94 11:18:43 JST
> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 10:14:57 JST > From: yoda at ele.crl.melco.co.jp (Kiyoshi Yoda) > > At 10:26 PM 94.6.14 +0200, riccardo at itnca1.ing.unitn.it wrote: > >We have Mathematica on a Power Mac 6100 40Mb RAM. > >Timing > >The factorial of 10000, i.e. 10000!; Takes around > >14 seconds to be executed. > > I tried that in Mac front end plus Sparc10 kernel. > It took 19 sec. > -- > Kiyoshi Yoda yoda at ele.crl.melco.co.jp Somebody mentioned 486DX2/66 is remarkably fast for mma calculation. 10000! calculation ended up with just 17.5 second using my 486DX2/66. I was amazed this is faster than SPARC10 result mentioned above! Natural extrapolation is that PENTIUM is faster than PowerPC regarding at least 10000! computation. Any feedback about this? Regards,