[Gllug] Recommended distro

[Jack Bertram]

* Joel Bernstein <joel at fysh.org> [041213 11:46]:
> 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.

But speed on its own is fairly meaningless as a metric -
price/performance is the most important comparator for nearly any use
which is speed dependent (other applications may put more emphasis on
reliability/price or capacity/price or some other tradeoff).  Which is
why Martin originally put them together - too expensive and too slow.

j
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