[Gllug] Recommended distro

[Joel Bernstein]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:30:39AM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> 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:
> > > 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.

Perhaps so, but CPU MHz isn't the best indicator of computational power
between CPUs of similar architecture, let alone totally different ones.
I wasn't commenting on pricing of hardware etc.

/joel
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