Re: ppc vs. i386
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:22:49PM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote:
>
> >debian ppc is slow compared to debian i386
> >what do u think about...?
>
> I think you are wrong.
> I can not give any number, but I perceive my PowerBook G3 1999
> 400Mhz, as fast as, if not faster than, a new Athlon 800 with
> fast memory. If you have any benchmark at hand, let me have it
> and I will give you the scores.
Of course it's faster at most things. Perhaps he's basing his ideas on
something that's not markable, like the text framebuffer console. I wish
it were speedier.
- chad (with a 333, and not
about to try to fix the fb
spinlocks)
--
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"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced".
First corollary to Clarke's Third Law (Jargon File, v4.2.0, 'magic')
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