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SubjectRe: [OFFTOPIC]: Linux is losing to Macs in the RC5 effort!
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George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org> writes:

> Yeah but have you really looked at the stats? At the current rate of
> number crunching, there is a 50/50 chance that the key will be found
> sometime in the next 23 years.

..but if you calculate in Moore's law of doubling performance every 18
months, you're down to only about seven years for a 50-50 chance. Even
better, the keyspace will be exhausted in about nine years.

Keep it running, keep upgrading, and keep the faith!

Btw - recent measurements show a PPro-200 running Linux to RC5 faster
than our brand new 270MHz Ultra 5 with Solaris. I'd like to attribute
it to Linux, but suspect the full-speed large L2 of the Pro has
something to do with it...

~kzm
--
If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants

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