Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 03:31:47 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buildworld times Message-ID: <20040301033034.D8264-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> In-Reply-To: <200402292218.18872.wes@softweyr.com>
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On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Wes Peters wrote: > On Saturday 28 February 2004 06:39 pm, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > > The original Willimette P4 was pretty poor in performance but I > > think the Northwood is better. I'm running a Northwood Mobile P4 > > 2.6Ghz CPU which is the maximum this machine supports so I don't really > > have a choice and this is a high-end notebook at the time as it pretty > > much has the same specs as the Dell Precision M50 with 2GB Memory which > > I did by changing the HD, video card and also the CPU and memory. My > > desktop runs on a P4-3.2C with HyperThreading and 2GB and 7200rpm > > drives as well and that machine is pretty fast. > > Athlons seem to do a bit better at large compilations that similar P4's. > This appears to be partly due to bigger cache, and partly better brach > prediction, from what I've gathered at Anandtech and elsewhere. My > Athlon XP 2000+, 1667 MHz home machine consistently beats my P4 2.0 GHz > work machine at compiling the same system and kernel, by 10 - 12%. > > The Athlon is on a Via KT600 mobo; the P4 is on an Intel 845 mobo. The > drives are WD800J for the Athlon and a Seagate 40GB ATA133 on the P4; I > don't know the model number or cache size. > > Long live AMD! ;^) Hehe. AMD does seem to be fast even for Windows machines compared to Intel though. ;) A question is for everyone who has all the quick buildworld times, are you actually using softfs? Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin
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