[AccessD] Pi day

[John Colby]

I built a Ryzen 12 core amd with 32gb RAM a couple of years ago.  I am
giving it to my son now.  My 8 core laptop is fast enough for everything I
do.

On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 6:39 PM Bill Benson <bensonforums at gmail.com> wrote:

> Reposted as former had an image not a link. If this dupes, apologies in
> advance.
>
> I wonder how fast this will do that.
>
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1psf8DV2Rbi-fxnK-QpDniVWv6caKo8Zz/view?usp=drivesdk
>
> It is the system I am having built as we speak. Can’t wait to have a modern
> PC, my 10 yr old Dell Latitude  on Win 7 is getting hard to find any
> software left that can run on it. MS 365 doesn’t!
>
> BILL
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 6:21 PM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > To celebrate Pi day I downloaded PiFast and calculated Pi to 1 billion
> > digits.  On my laptop with 4 real and 4 virtual cores, using the disk for
> > intermediate results in some manner (unknown) it took 105 seconds to
> > calculate Pi to 10 million digits.
> >
> > On my much more powerful 8 core 8 virtual cores laptop, it took 70
> seconds.
> >
> > OTOH  it took 7 seconds to compute without using the disk at all.
> >
> > Then I tried to calculate 1 billion places without the disk and the
> program
> > just crashed.  Using the disk (SSDs on both computers) it took 58 minutes
> > or so.
> >
> > Happy pi day.
> >
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