Re: Benchmarks....

David Mosberger-Tang (davidm@AZStarNet.com)
Sat, 19 Aug 1995 10:02:25 -0700


>>>>> On Sat, 19 Aug 1995 02:11:39 -0400 (EDT), rshutt@ravenet.com (Randall Shutt) said:

Randall> On Fri, 18 Aug 1995, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:

David> Your mail is quite disheartening. Yes, lots of people are
David> working hard on getting Linux/Alpha there, but tuning things will
David> just take some time. Doing system benchmarks on Linux/Alpha at
David> this time and making conclusions about the hw based on those
David> measurements is, quite simply, frivolous.
David>
David> --david

Randall> Sorry, I was refering to NT as a basis of comparasion
Randall> (however lowly of a comparasion that would be). If I
Randall> understand right, the NT alpha is a little more developed,
Randall> correct? I may be in the wrong area, but I get the point
Randall> about the cc: to the linux-alpha list.

My mail above was in response to a mail from gbult@mailgate.ftech.net
(which, as I understand it, was referring to system performance
measurments under Linux/Alpha). I'm sorry if that was clear (the To:
line says so, though). In any case, I'll be more careful in quoting
more material in the future.

--david