Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:30:56 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: jmb@hub.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: mike@argos.org, brett@lariat.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenBSD Message-ID: <199908190130.LAA12008@cheops.anu.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <19990818201702.DC37214FF0@hub.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Aug 18, 99 01:17:02 pm
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In some mail from Jonathan M. Bresler, sie said: > > > I'd sure hope so... Let's face it -- even though FreeBSD is (in my > > opinion) the most "robust" out of the bunch, the x86 architecture isn't > > going to win any awards for performance.... Cheap, yes. Easy, yes. > > Works for the most part, yes. But it's still based off of the idea that > > we need to be backwards-compatible with the late 1700's. The Alpha port > > of FBSD is A Good Thing (I'm hoping to try it out this weekend on a couple > > of the Alpha machines I have available for playing with), but the high-end > > boxes are pretty pricey. You can find multi-processor SPARC machines > > being practically given away by companies who don't know what they're > > capable of, not to mention several other platforms. > > > thisis incorrect. the intel processors knock the snot out of > sparc in inteeger performance. take a look at the hint benchmark for > example. the benchmark is in the ports tree. > > the alpha on the other hand knocks the intel flat on the matt. I see. No wonder the world has to put up with such an Intel-dominated marketplace, people can't look past the bang-for-bucks statistics. When you're running a fileserver, SPECint/SPECfp aren't really that significant. At the same time, I wouldn't be looking for a 12GB/s box if I wanted to do word processing either. Whilst your PC might be running at 100s of MHz, it probably stops hundreds of times a second, waiting for something. Talk to someone who knows about mainframes and see how often one of their CPUs will stall (for anything). They don't have FEP's, DASD, etc, for nothing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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