From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Dec 13 09:40:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA20201 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 09:40:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA20186; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 09:40:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA14071; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 12:40:47 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA17863; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 12:40:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 12:40:42 -0500 (EST) To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Cc: jim@cgi.sstar.com, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hint benchmark on Multia VX40A In-Reply-To: <199812131158.DAA20421@hub.freebsd.org> References: <199812112343.RAA15525@cgi.sstar.com> <199812131158.DAA20421@hub.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13939.64306.568854.66434@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jonathan M. Bresler writes: > > Thanks to Andrew Gallatin for running the Hint benchmarks on a Digital > (DEC now Compaq) Alpha Multia VX40A. Actually, the results were from Hint run on an AlphaStation 200 4/166, not a Multia. I guess I didn't make that as clear as I should have. The AlphaStation should be a bit faster than a Multia. > integer performance is nearly the same as an AMD Am5x86-133. that > places it just a tad slower than a Pentium 90 until the dataset size > reaches about 12kB (then the p90 falls out of cache). at that point > the p90 the am5x86-133 and hte multia are identical till 250kB when > the am5x86-133 starts lagging behind the other two. > > double performance is half way between a Pentium 90 and a PentiumPro > 150. > Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message