From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Feb 12 0: 3:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E18F37B405 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 00:03:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from trillian.santala.org (ip212-226-173-33.adsl.kpnqwest.fi [212.226.173.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 38CC643FBF for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 00:03:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jake@iki.fi) Received: (qmail 31759 invoked by uid 11053); 12 Feb 2003 08:03:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Feb 2003 08:03:11 -0000 Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:03:11 +0200 (EET) From: Jarkko Santala X-X-Sender: jake@trillian.santala.org To: FreeBSD alpha mailing list Subject: Re: Why is XFree86 on FreeBSD/Alpha much slower? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030212095746.M372-100000@trillian.santala.org> References: <15945.23721.759825.313603@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <15945.24538.794799.926276@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Marco Beishuizen wrote: > I always thought that graphics performance was the strengh of the Alpha. > But it seems to be the opposite. Doesn't all this also depend on the software in question, how well it has been optimized for a certain platform? For example, encoding mpeg4 with mplayer's mencoder on my PC164 EV56 500MHz does ~2fps, same framerate I had with a PentiumII 333MHz (or was it 233MHz). Duron 900 with slow SiS chipset and PC133 RAM can do ~20fps or more. -jake -- Jarkko Santala http://www.iki.fi/~jake/ System Administrator 2001:670:83:f08::/64 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message