At 03:48 AM 10/14/02 +0000, Raymond Filiatreault wrote: <snipped>

I tried running one of my semi-useless programs performing a calculation and recording the time it takes. This new one took TWICE AS LONG as my current P3-550e! I'm anxious to test if this is due to the XP or the P4. I also intend to test how Fractint speed will be affected.

We might be experiencing MHZ inflation. I suspect that, just as the number of cycles per second is going up in every new generation of Pentium processors, the amount of work that is being done in each cycle is going down. Maybe I'm just being overly suspicious, but I wonder... Jim M.