[ILUG] Thoughts on a compile box

[Kenn Humborg]

> > There's also the business of a 750Mhz Athlon will have a 100/133
> > Mhz Bus speed, which the Celeron's won't have (unless you overclock
> > them), so memory speed will be a bit limiting. I don't know
> > what compiling is like for cache hits, but the celeron's only
> > have 128k, which hampers them in Seti by most accounts.
> 
> Cripples them, actually : 20-30% speed loss against a P-III of the 
> same speed.

And the working set of a compile is probably a lot larger
than SETI, which disadvantages the Celeron even more, so
the Athlon with the 50% faster core, ??% faster memory
bus and larger cache would probably be faster overall.
Yea or nay?

And if Dabs have Athlon 750s for the same price as 
two Celeron 533s, then I guess the Athlon is the one
to go for...

Dammit, why don't CPU vendors quote their performance
figures as minutes/linux-kernel-compile?  :-)

Later,
Kenn