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- >>>>> "Michelle" == Michelle Pankowski <d9060469@helios.usq.edu.au> writes:
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- Michelle> Linux 2.0 is linux at its finest, all 32 bit and really
- Michelle> fast drivers, (tested with the fastest X server
- Michelle> available too). Windows95 is all 16 bit with a .hfv
- Michelle> volume to slow thing down as well...
-
- Michelle> So why the hell is it so much faster in every damn area,
- Michelle> and would it completely destroy Linux when the VCPU and
- Michelle> a 32 bit port comes on line?
-
- Going through X windows slows down Executor/Linux's graphics
- substantially. It's not really a fair comparison with Win95, because
- under Win95 Executor takes over the entire screen. Once we have a
- native Win32 port (where Executor can exist in a window on your
- desktop) the comparison will be more fair.
-
- Your numbers showed much slower graphics under svgalib than under
- Win95. They should be about the same unless svgalib doesn't fully
- support your video card. What kind of video card do you have?
-
- Michelle> Maybe you should write a 16 bit version for Linux to see
- Michelle> if you could make it go faster. (Yes, I know, it was a
- Michelle> joke)
-
- Just to be clear, Executor itself is entirely 32-bit on all platforms.
- Win95 and DOS may have 16-bit drivers, but the CPU benchmarks
- shouldn't be affected by what kind of drivers your system has (unless
- you start paging or something). The fact that they came out worse
- under Linux suggests a multitasking-related artifact, or just random
- variation. Instructing Speedometer to run each test 10 times should
- give more reliable numbers. Also, I suggest you try the CPU
- "benchmark suite" if you haven't already; that will average out many
- benchmarks for you (the plain "CPU test" benchmark just bubble sorts
- an array and isn't a great test).
-
- Thanks for the relative performance numbers...
-
- -Mat
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