From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Jun 29 12:08:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17473 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:08:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: (from sos@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17283; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:07:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199806291907.MAA17283@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PPro vs PII In-Reply-To: <9806291802.aa03736@s3.synx.com> from Remy NONNENMACHER at "Jun 29, 98 06:14:13 pm" To: remy@synx.com Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:07:44 -0700 (PDT) Cc: petrilli@dworkin.amber.org, freebsd@atipa.com, rotel@indigo.ie, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG From: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In reply to Remy NONNENMACHER who wrote: > > That's what say Tom's hardware guide: 100Mhz bus give a 3 to 10% > increase. (Now, he uses Win...... benchmarks and it's difficult to > figure out what is really tested.) Sounds realistic, and close to my "real world" observations. > Let's stop the pro/cons war about P2/Pro. I propose that those > interested grab the rc5des client on www.distributed.net and post the > result of -benchmark, along with processor type and speed. This will > close the debate quickly. That will show us nothing, it will say nothing about how the machine will perform in real-life situations, its about as meningfull as the old dhrystone "benchmark"... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message