From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 09:50:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA26481 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 09:50:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from fusion.gage.com (brimstone.gage.com [205.217.2.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA26469 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 09:50:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by fusion.gage.com (8.8.3/8.8.4) id LAA16062; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:50:19 -0600 (CST) Received: from octopus.gage.com(158.60.57.50) by fusion.gage.com via smap (V2.0beta) id xma016060; Thu, 13 Feb 97 11:50:19 -0600 Received: from squid.gage.com (squid [158.60.57.101]) by octopus.gage.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA24702; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:50:18 -0600 (CST) Received: from schemer by squid.gage.com (NX5.67e/NX3.0S) id AA25979; Thu, 13 Feb 97 11:50:18 -0600 Message-Id: <9702131750.AA25979@squid.gage.com> Received: by schemer.gage.com (NX5.67g/NX3.0X) id AA01690; Thu, 13 Feb 97 11:50:17 -0600 Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.0 v146.2) In-Reply-To: <199702131745.SAA29349@forwiss.tu-muenchen.de> X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 1.3) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.146.2) From: Ben Black Date: Thu, 13 Feb 97 11:50:16 -0600 To: Walter Hafner Subject: Re: UltraSPARC and MicroSPARC vs Pentium Pro ? Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <199702120330.TAA15056@f30.hotmail.com> <199702121833.KAA18506@freefall.freebsd.org> <9702131713.AA25713@squid.gage.com> <199702131745.SAA29349@forwiss.tu-muenchen.de> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> so a 133MHz P5 beats a 60MHz SuperSPARC? amazing. > >Yup! And that's not just benchmarks. Our "real live" applications are >faster on the P5 too ("Real live" means mainly byte-images). this is sarcasm. the pentium and supersparc are the same generation of CPUs. it is no suprise that doubling the clock speed of one makes it faster. b3n