> So, Alpha processor indeed is fast, but don't expect it of the small boxes.
> Before bying an 166 Alpha, I'd buy me a simple Pentium90, and have an
> appropriate fast machine for its price !
There are lies, damn lies and benchmarks. You have just discovered that
1) more L2 cache is better, especially with RISC processors.
Well, thats hardly new.
2) the Intel Pentium is a quite reasonable performer when it comes to
integer arithmetic. We knew that one too.
Where the Alpha should really knock the socks off the Pentium is in
floating point performance. A real life comparison of the floating point
prowess (e.g. with the Whetstone benchmark) of an Alpha versus a Pentium
would be *much* more interesting than comparing the integer performance.
Cheerio,
Ulf
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