[Gllug] Recommended distro

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:58:01AM +0000, Joel Bernstein wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:53:50AM +0000, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> > Joel Bernstein wrote:
> > 
> > >>Sorry but v7, v8?
> > >>   
> > >>
> > >
> > >SPARCv7 vs SPARCv8 CPU architectures. 
> > >
> > 
> > Ahh I see.  I must confess limited knowledge of sparc architecture. Too 
> > expensive and too slow for anything I've ever needed to do.
> 
> Too slow? Are you making the common mistake of assuming that MHz is a
> decent measurement of CPU performance across architectures? It would be
> disingenuous to assume that a Sun UltraSPARC III 800MHz CPU is slower
> than an Intel P3 1GHz because the Intel chip runs more cycles per
> second.

He's probably made the "common mistake" of actually benchmarking a Sun
machine against a comparably priced Intel box and finding out that the
Sun machine is around 3 times slower.

Rich.

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