Mandelbrot Benchmark

[Kuemmel]

Hi there,

after lots of optimization work I finished now an almost final version of my Mandelbrot Benchmark. It focuses on FPU and SSE2 units of current processors, while neglecting almost all influence of cache and memory subsystem and graphics card. I used a lot of time implementing the whole thing completely in assembler and used lots of techniques to make it really fast with loop unrolling, independent instruction chains, multi core support using the benefits of all the available CPU's.

I think it really shows how over the years theses calculation units where improved or not...I have a column on my webpage for efficiency per core per MHz.

Any comments and test results welcome...

@@@ New Version released 01-Jun-2008 @@@

Direct link:
http://www.mikusite.de/x86/KMB_V0.53H-32b-MT.zip
Homepage with results:
http://www.mikusite.de/pages/x86.htm