From: warren@wam.umd.edu (the stupid one) Subject: Re: How does Linux compare to SUN IPC? Date: 28 Sep 1993 20:02:11 GMT
rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) said:
>In article <1993Sep23.150359.24805@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl>
>metzger@cnplss5.cnp s.philips.nl (Kees Metzger) writes:
>>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).
>Of course you really need to document the processes that were running
>on the two systems at the time.
to which t0e0078@tamsun.tamu.edu (Terje Eggestad) replied:
>I fail to see the purpose, or the sanity of this argument.
>How can you compare hardware to software??
>This is like arguing about how this VCR tape compares to that VCR
>ot how the Cosby show compares to my TV!
i think Rick's point was that we cant tell from Kees's comments whether
there was another user on one of the systems doing a 10^6 point fourier
transform or deconvolving a blurry image with the camera's point spread
function or running a large magnetohydrodynamic simulation or something
even more time-consuming in the background and affecting the speed of
the system
-- Bela Lugosi's dead, Jim!