[ILUG] gloating

[Liam Bedford]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 04:07:43PM +0100, Smelly Pooh came forth with:
> In reply to Liam Bedford's flatulent wordings, 
> > On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 03:55:21PM +0100, David Murphy came forth with:
> > > Quoting <C45048E5BA68D011ACE708002BE623F204ED1712 at ilo-exc-1.ilo.cpqcorp.net>
> > > by "McDaid, Aaron" <Aaron.McDaid at compaq.com>:
> > > 
> > > > > Just want to gloat a bit :-)
> > > > > 17880.32 BogoMIPS, yahoo!
> > > > > <snip>
> > > > > BogoMIPS                : 1488.97
> > > > > kernel unaligned acc    : 17852
> > > > 
> > > > you mixed yourself up a bit i think
> > > > you only have 1488 BogoMIPS
> > > > now who's gloating ;)
> > > 
> > > Any chance of some real benchmarks?
> > dunno, but someone on debian-alpha has a quad EV67 machine, which
> > is similar, and it takes 20 mins for him to rebuild XFree86 4...
> > 
> > not sure how that compares, but the thing about alpha's is the
> > ridiculous floating point (the 500Mhz 21164 with an optimized lame
> > encodes mp3's in about 3-5 times realtime, without anything like
> > MMX to help it)
> 
> Unfortunately a Pentium III 500Mhz with an optimised gogo will do about the
> same
that's why I mentioned that there is no MMX. Gogo is written in assembler, with
MMX/3Dnow optimizations.. lame is written in pure C or whatever..

L.
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