Re: c/c++: a new adventure

[Wing Wong <buyer1342@saladlove.com>]

On Tue, 1 Jan 1980, Lionel Pinkhard wrote:

> Lionel
> P.s. Does anybody know why my 486DX/2-66 could be running at ten times the
> speed (on the benchmark test) of my Pentium-100? Or of a mailing list where
> I could ask hardware questions? The Pentium-100 has 12MB RAM, and the
> 486DX/2-66 has only 8MB, and I used the same hard drive on both of them.
> The NICs are both NE2k, the 486 has a Cirrus Logic GD5424 card, and the
> Pentium has a Trident 9400 card.

Might be a case of configuration and optimization on the systems in
question. It could be that a program to check for performance on the 486
may not be the latest and may not be able to test the full performance
capable on a Pentium. But it really depends on what kind of benchmark you
are performing. CPU specific or graphics card, etc.

My 486dx4-120 beat my old Pentium P166 in most speed tests and such. That
is, until the programs being used became more P166 optimized. It also
depends on the bus speed as well. The reason my dx120 beat the 166 might
have had something to do with a 3x40mhz bus compared to the P166's 5.x
x33mhz bus.

Just depends on how they might be configured.

Wing.

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