Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 16 May 1997 09:34:26 +0200 (MET DST) | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | | Subject | Re: Alpha 500 vs Bi Ppro. |
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On Thu, 15 May 1997, Rogier Wolff wrote: >Elliot Lee wrote: >> > you mean you actually have two pentium pro processors? I ask simply >> > because I've never seen it written that way. That would make a big >> > difference as well. Get two alpha chips and the alpha would probably win. >> > Or try something besides compiling code. >> >> That doesn't make any sense. At some point you MUST execute compiled code, >> whether you are executing the program itself or the interpreter... An >> interpreter will almost always be slower, independant of platform. > >My favorite benchmark is "compile the kernel". As Gcc requires lots >more CPU time to generate alpha-code, some people argue that this is >not a valid test. When all I'm interested in is compile performance
It's better to cross-compile kernels, to make sure the same code generating is used[*]. Some months ago we had many results of cross-compiling Linux/m68k on the Linux/m68k mailing list.
Greetings,
Geert
[*] Yes, this depends on how well your cross-compiler was compiled and optimized too. -- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/m68k on Amiga http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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