Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 21:48:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: P6 200 performance Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.94.960925214202.3989A-100000@scooter.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <199609251452.QAA10581@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > I want to persuade my professor to spend in a P6/200. > What is the performance gain over a P5/166? > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de > I don't have numbers around (I'm not a number person..) but I'd say a decent P6/200 system is about twice as fast as a P5/166. I base this on rough SpecINT95/SpecFP95 results I've seen (go to www.intel.com for exact figures) and on personal experience. I have a P6/200, and I'm still amazed everyday at how fast the thing is. It's the first PC I've seen that I would consider a "workstation". I get sub 4 minute kernel builds, blazing X-Performance, etc.. etc.. I've never been so happy with a computer! :-) FreeBSD 2.2 on a P6/200 is quite simply remarkable performance. -Mark ------------------------------------------- | Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com | | C-Soft www.quickweb.com | ------------------------------------------- "To iterate is human, to recurse divine." - L. Peter Deutsch
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