On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:

>   Seti@Home isn't a very good benchmark.  The Seti@Home folks are of
> the "all the world's a PeeCee" mindset and have put huge amounts of
> work into optimizing the Intel clients, and comparatively little into
> other processors.
> 
>   This is YET ANOTHER reason why I abandoned that project some time ago
> despite the fact that I think the idea is extremely cool.
> 
>         -Dave McGuire

I figured that as well - thinking that maybe the code is not optimised.  I
do like the idea though and really want to be able to get through some
packets in a reasonable amount of time.  Just don't want to have to go out
and buy a fast PC to do it with.  Rather stick to "better" archetecture
than intel.

-Linc.

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