[Gllug] Overclockers + GIMPS

[Nix]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Harry Jackson stated:
> Download GIMPS and run the test if it fails reduce the clocking until it
> does not.

And this tells you that one combination of instructions (a fairly
constant set; it's one tight loop) works at this moment. It doesn't say
that other combos work, and it doesn't say that that combination will
always work as the processor ages.

A torture kernel-compile (or even better, a KDE or Mozilla build) is
a rather better test; the instruction load is far more varied.

All the GIMPS test will be testing is the insn fetch-from-chip-cache,
MMU, and integer ALU/pipeline stuff; the rest will be almost
unexercised.

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