From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Jun 21 9:23: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9920914FB5 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:22:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from lestat (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA17658; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:22:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199906211622.JAA17658@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> To: John Polstra Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Significant speedups from -mcpu=ev56 Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:22:42 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:00:59 -0700 (PDT) John Polstra wrote: > It's still a _lot_ slower than my PII/400 (3394.29 real 2370.84 user > 506.85 sys). Building a source tree is a really poor measure of relative performance when you're comparing CISC to RISC. In the latter case, the compiler does a whole lot more work at compile time. -- Jason R. Thorpe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message