Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 12:30:35 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Alpha <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: relative alpha speed Message-ID: <199909011930.MAA00427@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Sep 1999 10:38:08 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909011034110.369-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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> I have just begin to compare my dual 333 MHz PII system against my > PC164SX system. I haven't any rela confidence yet that I've got the new > PC164SX correctly set up (particularly, I am not certain about the way I > have my RAM installed), but in timing and comparing makes of buildworld > and of the kernel, the 333 MHZ PII seems to be beating the 533MHz Alpha > by nearly 2:1. > > I did the testing before and after I activated softupdates on the alpha, > and I was very surprised to note that I saw about a 5 percent slowdown > when using softupdates. > > Are these experiences what I should have expected, or should I take this > as clear evidence that I have something misconfigured? As has already been pointed out, the Alpha backend for gcc takes a lot more CPU than the i386 backend for the same task, so neither of these are good cross-platform benchmarks. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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