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Re: AMD CPU - (pentium way faster) [message #29083 is a reply to message #29078]

Thu, 31 January 2002 15:13

Robert Stockwell
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Registered: October 2001

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Mark Hadfield wrote:

> "Brian Jackel" <bjackel@phys.ucalgary.ca> wrote in message
> news:3C5999AB.5DACDD1F@phys.ucalgary.ca...
>
>
>> Why is Bob's Linux/Athlon combination so slow? Do RSI link to a
>> particularly bad numerical library? I'd really like to know what's
>> going on here. My long term plan is to migrate from Windows to
>> Linux, but I'm not keen on a 50% degredation in effective processing
>> power.
>>
>
> I have been comparing Linux & Windows 2000 on the same machine:
> Pentium 3 800 MHz, 384 MB RAM. Linux wins the time_test2 comparison by
> about 10 % (though Windows tries to cheat on the geometric mean by
> recording a zero time for one of the tests).

Hmmm the exact opposite of my machine (win2000 is faster than linux).
What flavour of Linux was it? Also, what IDL version?

Cheers,
bob

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		Re: AMD CPU - (pentium way faster) By: Richard French on Thu, 31 January 2002 17:01
		Re: AMD CPU - (pentium way faster) By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 31 January 2002 16:36
		Re: AMD CPU - (pentium way faster) By: Robert Stockwell on Thu, 31 January 2002 15:13
		Re: AMD CPU - (pentium way faster) By: Robert Stockwell on Thu, 31 January 2002 14:19
		Re: AMD CPU - (pentium way faster) By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 31 January 2002 12:39
		Re: AMD CPU - (pentium way faster) By: Brian Jackel on Thu, 31 January 2002 11:23
		Re: AMD CPU - (pentium way faster) By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 31 January 2002 09:56
		Re: AMD CPU - (pentium way faster) By: Robert Stockwell on Thu, 31 January 2002 07:47

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