Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:07:44 -0700 (PDT) From: sos@FreeBSD.ORG To: remy@synx.com Cc: petrilli@dworkin.amber.org, freebsd@atipa.com, rotel@indigo.ie, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPro vs PII Message-ID: <199806291907.MAA17283@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <9806291802.aa03736@s3.synx.com> from Remy NONNENMACHER at "Jun 29, 98 06:14:13 pm"
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In reply to Remy NONNENMACHER who wrote:
>
> That's what say Tom's hardware guide: 100Mhz bus give a 3 to 10%
> increase. (Now, he uses Win...... benchmarks and it's difficult to
> figure out what is really tested.)
Sounds realistic, and close to my "real world" observations.
> Let's stop the pro/cons war about P2/Pro. I propose that those
> interested grab the rc5des client on www.distributed.net and post the
> result of -benchmark, along with processor type and speed. This will
> close the debate quickly.
That will show us nothing, it will say nothing about how the machine
will perform in real-life situations, its about as meningfull as
the old dhrystone "benchmark"...
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time.
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