From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 25 18:52:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA25194 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 18:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scooter.quickweb.com (scooter.quickweb.com [199.212.134.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA25002 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 18:52:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (mark@localhost) by scooter.quickweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA04001; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 21:48:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 21:48:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Mayo To: Christoph Kukulies cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: P6 200 performance In-Reply-To: <199609251452.QAA10581@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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