Subject: Re: bug#12350: Composites identified as primes in factor.c (when HAVE_GMP)

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:04:22 +0200

Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
> Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>   Thanks for checking that.
>
>   Torbjorn you seem to be interploating from your
>   3.3 GHz Sandy bridge to my 2.1GHz i3-2310M Sandy Bridge,
>   but it might not be linear due to cache, turbo boost,
>   mem bandwidth, ...
>
> It should be linear in clock frequency, yes.

"It" meaning the core computation.

However, this little command does a lot of I/O, too:
191M input, 77M output.