"ComputerDoctor" <davekimble@austarnet.com.au> wrote in message
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Stratcat wrote (Re: SETI@home receives only 50% CPU time?) :

If you're running a single instance of CLI 3.08 &
convert to CLI 3.03(s), you will see an additional ~ 10 -15%

increase in

production vs. the CLI 3.08's

Does this mean CLI 3.03 is more efficiently coded than 3.08 ?
Is that hyperthreading specific, or does it go for all x86s ?
I thought I had noticed my averages going up when I upgraded,

but I also

upgraded to XP from 98SE at about the same time and thought it

was due to

all those XP services chewing up cycles.
Somewhere on the BOINC list someone said that processing SETI

WUs under

BOINC would take ~30% longer.

As an old programmer in assembly code (remember that?  ) as

well as in

higher level languages, I well understand the value of using

high level

languages to be platform-independent, keep down the cost of

development and

on-going maintenance, but when the main objective is to crunch

as many WUs

as possible, surely newer versions should always be leaner and

meaner than

the old.

I believe 3.08 had extra coding added to address a security
concern.

Terry