From: Andrew Beals (bandy_at_cinnamon.com)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 14:29:49 EDT
AnimePhreak_at_aol.com said:
> It would be better if instead of you timing how long it takes a
> program to start then to run an actual benchmarkprogram. Like PCMark.
If I had such a proggie, I'd have run it . As it was, I saw a real
discernable difference with Planet's Visibility and decided to document it.
If anything, it was a good example as to why having a math co-processor is a
Very Good Thing if you're going to be crunching lots of numbers.
ross_at_math.hawaii.edu said:
> Most likely this is a computation-bound program, so would probably
> respond very well to this change in CPU.
And fewer things are more computation-bound than I had previously thought, or
they're just poorly optimized.
Windoze seemed a little bit snappier, and may actually be, 133MHz versus
33MHz, but it's definitely not four times faster.
I do realize that I haven't changed the actual bus bandwidth, video
performance, or i/o.
> I saw similarly nice results when moving a desktop to an AMD 586-133
> (see http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~ross/cpu.shtml), and the same is true
> for some TP701 owners here who changed the CPU to the AMD chip.
Thanks for the pointer to your page.
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