From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed May 15 1:55:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7968837B41A for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 01:55:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4F8tIfg099454; Wed, 15 May 2002 01:55:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4F8tI8V099453; Wed, 15 May 2002 01:55:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 01:55:18 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Peter Jeremy Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha CPU Performance vs i386 Message-ID: <20020515015518.A95909@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Peter Jeremy , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020514201923.GK37326@Area51.DK> <20020514222344.A2915@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20020515161627.O18023@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020515161627.O18023@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>; from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au on Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:16:27PM +1000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:16:27PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2002-May-14 22:23:44 +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > >On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:19:23PM +0200, Gorm Jorgensen wrote: > >> > >> I can't seem to find any specs on how an Alpha 500 MHz is performing vs an > >> Intel 500MHz. > > BTW, you can't just say "Alpha 500 MHz". An EV6/500 in an ES40 is > roughly twice as fast as an EV5/466 in an AS4100. It should probably also be mentioned that ev56 is "faster" than ev5 on much integer code because it has the BWX (byte) instructions which really help much common code written on 32-bit platforms. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message