From: bjl@loki.pttrnl.nl (Ben Lippolt) Subject: Performance of Linux on 486/33 compared to SparcStation-2 Date: 22 Jul 1992 21:00:44 GMT
Hi,
I just installed TeX on my Linux system (a 486/33 ISA, 8 Mb, 200 Mb IDE)
and just wanted to see what the speed of it was compared to TeX on my
SparcStation-2 (at work of course :-) ). So I did a very simple test
(and probably not very scientific). I took a document (29 pages) and TeX-ed
it 10 times. The results were:
SS-2 1:57 min
486/33 1:12 min
These are response times. Both machines were doing nothing else (the
SS-2 is on an network, but the network and the server had very little
load at the time (11:00 pm)).
I know you can't draw any conclusions from this, but I'm impressed anyway.
Ben Lippolt.