From: vgough@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Valiant Gough) Subject: Re: How does Linux compare to SUN IPC? Date: 23 Sep 1993 22:58:43 GMT
Kees Metzger (metzger@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl) wrote:
: a228dhal@cdf.toronto.edu (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh) writes:
: >I was wondering, if anyone has done benchmarks between the two for
: >various processors. I am not saying that Linux is better, it still
: >has a ways to go before it can match the all around appeal of the SUN.
: Although it's not much I can add this:
: My Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V (running Linux) is about 3 times faster than
: the SS 1+ on a compilation job of about 100,000 lines (in 150 files).
Most of the things I do use only integer instructions (compiling, vision
systems, etc), and my 486dx2-66 is about 2 times the speed of our local
Sparc IPC/IPX for those things, but for heavy floating point stuff
(neural networks), the Sparc wins out.
As a side note, my computer is also faster then the RS/6000's
(960,540,320, and 220's) that I use - for integer stuff, but not floating
point. It seems Intel isn't all that good at floating point
processing.
Valiant Gough
vgough@mines.colorado.edu