I've got a new box..

Gareth Bult (gareth@ftech.net)
Tue, 22 Aug 1995 12:20:16 +0100


I can finally test an unloaded Alpha against a Pentium (P75 in this case).

Compile of BYTE benchmarks (the suite);

P75 - 0:24 seconds, 66,666 dhrystones.
Alpha - 1:51 seconds, 75,000 dhrystones.

I think it's safe to say that a little optimisation in the compiler/kernel
is going
to make a useful difference. Someone was saying that the OSF compiler
compiles to
full 64bit and gcc only to 32bit - hence the speed difference on the
dhrystone integers,
linux is doing 2 calcs for every 1 under OSF.... likely?

Gareth.
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