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Re: Mac Intel benchmarks [message #50030 is a reply to message #49919]

Wed, 06 September 2006 00:23

Paolo Grigis
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Registered: December 2003

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usenet.spamacct@gmail.com wrote:
> Unfortunately I have to run windows XP under boot camp on my flash new
> system until I can complete a particular project. Fortunately that
> gives me an excellent excuse to burn time while I configure and
> "assess" two systems in one...
>
> The machine is only a 2.66 GHz Mac Pro, with 4x512MB = 2GB RAM. The
> numbers I get are, FYI:
>
> (IDL 6.3, x86 native for each OS)
>
> time_test3:
> OS X: 0.89
> wxp: 0.55

That even seems larger that the XP vs. Linux performance gap...
one really wonders why windows is so much faster?

Ciao,
Paolo

>
> JD's test:
> OS X: 0.16 - 0.17
> wxp: 0.17 - 0.18
>
> Each test was run numerous times, ignoring the first instance. I'm too
> tired and harried to eyeball a mean for JD's test so I give the range.
> For what it's worth, XP is run off a seagate 7200.10 320GB sataII drive
> in drive bay 3.
>
> I wonder what the 3GHz running windows would do to time_test3?
>
> Cheers,
> kelly crowell, humble lurker
>
> $LN + "world" <spiralish-at-thing> pobox <period> com
>

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