New Multi-Threaded Pi Program - Faster than SuperPi and PiFast

[poke349]

Good night. Have a good trip!

Thanks! Going home for spring break.
About to head to the airport. Guess I'll be spending the time on the plane migrating the program to the new thread API that I just knocked up.
(If I can manage to open up my 17-in. laptop on a seat tray... )

Then I'll tweak the validation to make it less sensitive to clock variation...
(I might need your help for this, since I don't have a system with a very imprecise hardware timer like yours - assuming that's the problem.)

The last thing I have planned for v0.5.3 is a new conversion algorithm.
It's based on the same approach that was used to set the current Pi record and is 3 - 4x faster than one I'm currently using. So I guess the credit goes Fabrice Ballard for coming up with such an ingenious algorithm... (or whoever he got the idea from)

I doubt I'll finish this before I get back to school, since I'll probably be spending the whole break fixing my workstation and getting trashed with my high school friends...

With this new algorithm, the program should be 10 - 20% faster.
This gives me room to insert some new redundancy checks without making v0.5.3 any slower than v0.5.2.