Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 01:55:18 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha CPU Performance vs i386 Message-ID: <20020515015518.A95909@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20020515161627.O18023@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>; from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au on Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:16:27PM %2B1000 References: <20020514201923.GK37326@Area51.DK> <20020514222344.A2915@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20020515161627.O18023@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:16:27PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2002-May-14 22:23:44 +0200, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> wrote: > >On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:19:23PM +0200, Gorm Jorgensen wrote: > >> > >> I can't seem to find any specs on how an Alpha 500 MHz is performing vs an > >> Intel 500MHz. > > BTW, you can't just say "Alpha 500 MHz". An EV6/500 in an ES40 is > roughly twice as fast as an EV5/466 in an AS4100. It should probably also be mentioned that ev56 is "faster" than ev5 on much integer code because it has the BWX (byte) instructions which really help much common code written on 32-bit platforms. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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