Quote Originally Posted by bonis62 View Post
PrimeCores is written in assembler ( 85M in 11 secs at 3.2 GHz ) and does not use
advanced mathematical routine therefore fully
compatible with older processors,
the problem of using advanced mathematics is a bottleneck more than help, the good is writing custom advanced math that run on all processors,
for benchmarks the compatibility is crucial,
at least I think so.
uh...

PrimeCores finds prime numbers. It has nothing to do with Pi.

y-cruncher is fully compatible with older processors. It just won't be as fast.

In my opinion, the true benchmark is one that adapts to the processor that it's running on by utilizing all special features it has. (Otherwise, why have those special features in the first place?)

Also, y-cruncher wasn't originally written for benchmarking.
It was done for a completely different purpose and later converted into a benchmark.