Kernel Rebuild & Status... (fwd)

Jim Nance (jlnance@isscad.com)
Thu, 17 Aug 95 7:14:08 EDT

> Board:
> noname - 166Mhz - PCI 256kCache , 32Mb RAM.
> Rating: 75,000 drhystones (II) - same speed as a P90.
> Cost: =A3900 (incl cache) , about twice the price of a P90.
> !!!!
>
> I guess the real question is, where did all that speed go? The motherboard
> manual quotes 330,000 dhrystones on the 166Mhz Chip..... :-(

I would like to try something. If you will send me the drhystones source,
I will compile it under OSF/1 and send it back to you. I have some beta
compilers from DEC, and I want to see how much faster code they generate
than gcc.

Jim