Yes thanks.
>Gcc produces unoptimized code if you doesnt tell it noy to do, so use something
>like gcc -O5, that would boot the perf upto like 200k, with linux/linux-libc.
Just rebuilt the test with -O5 instead of -O2, exactly the same results.
>But compilng these benches under OSF1 will probably double the perfomance!
>>Why? Because gcc,Linux and Linux/libc at the moment arent optimezed at all..
Seems fair enough, except that I wouldn't expect integer operations to call
ANY library functions.....
>So, wait a couple of months before complaining about perfomance.
Nah, not if it is apparent on NT as well.
>Yes, they are cheaper and faster. Why do you think that LCA stands for?
>Low Cost Alpha's ... And you get what you pay for.
I'm afraid you don't, Alphas cost twice (and some more) a P90.
You only get HALF what you pay for.
>I hope you didnt buy this board because of excellent perfomance. Because
>this boards are not faster than pentiums. (Well, they are noticable faster
>on fp).
According to DEC's advertising they are! and yes I did. If it's slower, why
would any Linux user ant to buy it??
>The problem for dec and others to compete with intel, is because of the low
>volumes... But still Alpha cpus are really cheap. The 21066A (233Mhz LCA chip)
>costs about $300. The 21064A (275Mhz, blows pentiums away $700).. So why
>doesnt some1 produce a cheap board with 21064A's?
Mmm, People are saying Alpha's on the right motherboard DO perform, but the
boards are 3k.
>To bad..
:-(
>But I still think the Noname boards are very good boards to develop on. And I
>didnt need so much cpu-power, I just wanted to hack on Linux/Alpha, and I
>prersonally think Noname boards are suitable for that purpose.
Urm Ok. I guess if it's a hobby it's fun, I certainly enjoyed setting up.
However, we're pretty commercial here and were hoping to actualy use the
system.....
>Eh, ofcourse it perfoms badly, its NT .. ;)
Yeeess.
I can live with poor performance due to lack of Linux optimisation, the
point is that everything points to the board still being slow once the OS
has been optimised!
Gareth.
PS; http://alpha.ftech.co.uk/ if anyone want's a look. Seems pretty stable
and if my routing is OK then is should be visible on the net.
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