In a message dated 8/19/07 4:55:13 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
rgmustain@aol.com writes:
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On a 1 GHz intel processor I can generate 1 million numbers/second.
Vven if the processor in a VP machine is slower, this gives you a good
feeling that the hands are flying by pretty quickly.Dick
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Let's see a Gig prefix means ten to the twelve power(?) and we get a million
(ten to the sixth) pulls from the RNG generator. This implies about a million
elementary clock ticks per RNG pull.
What is the simplest-quickest thing a computer can do...shift a register left
or right one position? What does that take four clock ticks?
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