Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Alpha 500 vs Bi Ppro. | | Date | Thu, 15 May 1997 23:04:22 +0200 (MET DST) | | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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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 because I'm developing on the machine it may be a valid test after all, but if I'm going to run e.g. "latex" on a regular basis, then the results of the compile jobs matter.
Roger.
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