From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed May 15 2:14:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B39DF37B400 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 02:14:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4F9EGRH006094; Wed, 15 May 2002 11:14:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4F9EGDi006089; Wed, 15 May 2002 11:14:16 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 11:14:15 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Thomas Pornin Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha CPU Performance vs i386 Message-ID: <20020515111415.B5904@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20020514201923.GK37326@Area51.DK> <20020514222344.A2915@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20020515161627.O18023@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <20020515093259.A50064@gnah.bolet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020515093259.A50064@gnah.bolet.org>; from pornin@bolet.org on Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:33:00AM +0200 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 09:33:00AM +0200, Thomas Pornin wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:16:27PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: ... > I have used as my main working machine a Miata for three years (under > Linux first, then FreeBSD) and I came to the following conclusions: > > -- The PC will performe better than the equally-clocked Alpha on > byte-intensive stuff, such as string handling, pattern matching and so. Have you tried Alpha's with and without BWX (byte manip. instructions)? I'm not sure if GCC uses them, I would expect yes for EV56 and higher. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message