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Date:      Wed, 15 May 2002 11:14:15 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Thomas Pornin <pornin@bolet.org>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Alpha CPU Performance vs i386
Message-ID:  <20020515111415.B5904@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20020515093259.A50064@gnah.bolet.org>; from pornin@bolet.org on Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:33:00AM %2B0200
References:  <20020514201923.GK37326@Area51.DK> <20020514222344.A2915@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20020515161627.O18023@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <20020515093259.A50064@gnah.bolet.org>

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On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:33:00AM +0200, Thomas Pornin wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:16:27PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:

...

> I have used as my main working machine a Miata for three years (under
> Linux first, then FreeBSD) and I came to the following conclusions:
> 
> -- The PC will performe better than the equally-clocked Alpha on
> byte-intensive stuff, such as string handling, pattern matching and so.

Have you tried Alpha's with and without BWX (byte manip. instructions)?

I'm not sure if GCC uses them, I would expect yes for EV56 and higher.

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|   / o / /_  _   				wilko@FreeBSD.org
|/|/ / / /(  (_)  Bulte				Arnhem, the Netherlands

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