From: adam@microware.com (Adam Goldberg) Subject: Re: Intel, the Pentium and Linux Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 13:13:07 GMT
jahoward@iastate.edu (Jim) writes:
>In <1r0tqkINNr18@s850.mwc.edu> bfornshe@s850.mwc.edu (Ben J Fornshell) writes:
>>the 386. Also its supposed to be able to handle two integer processes
>>simultaneously, though its floating point rating is supposed to
>>(relatively speaking) stink. The only real problem the 586/P5s have is
>Well, everything I have read about the P5 chip (including private
>reviews) points to a much greater improved floating point unit. In fact,
>in nearly every test, the floating unit was 5(five) times FASTER than the
>DX2/66
>The integer stuff was about twice the speed of a dx/66. The test I
>am quoting was in PC World, and it was run on the 60mhz Pentium.
Aha! There's the problem--you're comparing against a 486. The
Pentium FPU is slow _when_compared_to_other_64-bit_processors (Alpha,
for instance).
Adam
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