[YLUG] Why is this so much faster on an Opteron?

[Robert Hulme]

> > I have a Core 2 Duo laptop (gcc 4.1.2) running at 1Ghz and that takes
> > 32 seconds to run this. My office desktop is a Pentium D 3Ghz and it
> > takes 40 seconds :/
> Both of which will be frequency scaled down quite considerably under a
> default installation of Ubuntu.
I was quoting the 'scaled' figure i.e. what /proc/cpuinfo said. 1Ghz
is the slowest my chip can be clocked to.

(also I'm using Debian)

-Rob

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