Preliminary Results
Simple Factoring Problem
- Brute-force factoring of large integer N
- search space of 1 to sqrt(N) divided into fixed-size work packets
On 200 Mhz Pentiums using Netscape 4.0 on Windows NT:
- speedup with 8 workers is 7.42 = 92.8% efficiency
- 1-worker performance is comparable to C
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