Dang, thats scary that a Cyrix chip is almost as fast as my 450Mhz chip.
I would have to guess that the speed degredation comes not only from
NT(I hate microsoft just as much as the next person) but also from the
Cygwin things that are going on. Is there any plan of a version being
written for win32 not using Cygwin?
keen@genesis.digital-galaxy.net wrote:
>
> On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, SteveA wrote:
>
> > Question though, in a previous email, some one stated that the MMX
> > version on a 500Mhz x86 would get roughly 146K iterations a sec. I have
> > a 450Mhz x86 and only get 99K iterations a second with the MMX core
> > under WinNT. Is there really that much overhead with NT compared to unix
> > to account for the 50,000 iteration a second differnce?
>
> Yes.;)
>
> My 300mhz Celeron, with the MMx code, gets 106k, and my overclocked (to
> 266) Cyrix PR233 gets 70k with the MMX. FreebBSD 3.0-r on one, BSDi 4.01
> on the second.
>
> later...david
>
> --
> David Raistrick '69 Westy-Ichigo (retired:( ) keen@digital-galaxy.net
> '82 Westy-Maxine (Mom's)
> '66 SO-44 Westy (Daily Driver) in Augusta Ga
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