Re: XL266 vs AMD K6?

[wade <wade xwin net>]

On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 09:50:24AM +0200, Morten Nielsen wrote:
> 
> > approx 220 BOGOmips .... and thats not fast! ..
> 
> bogomips don't mean shit.
amen.
> 
> > my AMD K6 233 (overclocked 250, 32Mb RAM) gives approx. 430
> > BOGOmips ... can this be true? ..
> 
> yes.
> 
> > is my AMD really beating my Alpha, with almost double speed..!?
> 
> nope.
> 
> > I know that BOGOmips really cant be used to test 2 machines, but still,
> > twice as fast!!!!?
> 
> twice as many do-nothing loops/sec. big deal.
> 
> > Can anyone tell me how fast a pentium class PC, a XL266 would be? ;)
> 
> Umm... I'm no expert here, I would guess a similar to a P120 or so,
> depending very much on what your doing.
> 
> I've noticed my rather wussy little alpha is damn slow for lots of
> stuff, but if I tune code to avoid nasty short/byte accesses and
> unaligned memory traps it isn't too bad by comparison.
> 
> 
> 
> -cw
> 
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