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- From: clarke@meandyou.Eng.Sun.COM (Kevin Clarke)
- Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
- Subject: Re: Who wants faster machines was DEC ALPHA Performance Claims
- Message-ID: <lglfolINNqmm@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:09:25 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.175349.1664@cis.uab.edu>
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- In article 1664@cis.uab.edu, hyatt@cis.uab.edu (Robert Hyatt) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.162956.2990@ncar.ucar.edu> pack@acd.ucar.edu (Daniel Packman) writes:
- >I agree. Even if I were to stop doing "number crunching" on my workstation,
- >I still care about how quickly it can pop up the mailtool, or pop up a
- >new window, or run a document thru LaTeX or compile a program. Once it can
- >do any of these (or similar) functions in "zero" time (which could be defined
- >as less than .25 seconds) then anything faster wouldn't affect me. For now,
- >SS1 speeds are fair, but not great. I have an SS2 (40mhz) with a local 400
- >meg disk and it is better. However, as X grows and increases it's function-
- >ality more, it will become too slow. My old Sun 3/50 seemed quite fast
- >five years ago. Now, you can't give 'em away. In essence, any appreciable
- >delay is noticable and anything that can be done to reduce it will have a
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- Most of what you find in this domain is that the software is slow.
- Throwing cycles at this problem set is probably a bad answer, although
- it has been the most frequent answer.
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- Tune the code and the "mips" will fall out.
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- KC
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