Re: BogoMIPS revisitied...MMX

Andreas Kostyrka (andreas@rainbow.studorg.tuwien.ac.at)
Wed, 18 Mar 1998 23:30:05 +0100 (CET)

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On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> Wouldn't the branch prediction be bad no matter WHAT application you
> are running?
Yep. To make it easier: On almost practically the same hardware (SCSI hdd,
RAM, etc.), a AMD K6/200 was about 10% slower than a 2xP-200 on a par.
kernel recompile. (in both cases the cpu usage was almost perfect.)
So compared to a Pentium, a K6 rocks.

Andreas

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