Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:31:58 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Significant speedups from -mcpu=ev56 Message-ID: <XFMail.990621093158.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199906211622.JAA17658@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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Jason Thorpe wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:00:59 -0700 (PDT) > John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> 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. Excellent point. Too bad that's practically all I use the Alpha for ... John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-interest is the aphrodisiac of belief." -- James V. DeLong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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