From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 16:03:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A585816A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:03:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail19f.dulles19-verio.com (mail19f.dulles19-verio.com [198.170.241.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C15643D31 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:03:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rob@pythonemproject.com) Received: from www.pythonemproject.com (198.104.176.109)0-0887153420 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:03:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <404FACDD.2040606@pythonemproject.com> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:03:41 -0800 From: Rob User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <404FAC50.6070603@pythonemproject.com> In-Reply-To: <404FAC50.6070603@pythonemproject.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: chat@freebsd.org X-Loop-Detect: 1 cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What makes Centrino so fast? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:03:43 -0000 I forgot to add that the Athlon system has 1Gig of Ram while the Centrino has 512k. Rob. Rob wrote: > I have my own benchmark program that I use for number crunching. > It uses a mixture of Python and Numeric Python. > > Athlon 2166Mhz as reported by OS: 2m38.7s > Intel Centrino Pentium 1700 Mhz: 2m17s > > Is it just compiler optimization at play? > > Sincerely, > > Rob > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >