Re: P4 vs Athlon for Linux latexing, is gcc-2.95 responsible?

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From: andrew
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 18:05

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In article <3D0B57CB.5060406@nospam.com>, Hugh <hugh@nospam.com> writes
>The following is my general finding so far:
>
>Special features of Pentium 4 cpu is not generally utilized
>by gcc-2.95.** which is used for most Linux distributions rpms.
>Latexing a big document with Zeon Pentium 4 at 1.7GHz (52 sec) is actually
>even slower than Pentium III running at 700MHz giving 35 sec.
>
>On Athlon at 1.6GHz, it gives 16 sec.  The best.
>
>Is my understanding for the reason of slow speed with P4 correct?
>gcc-2.95.  If I do obtain te-latex.src.rpm and then compile it
>with gcc-3.1, would I get much faster binary under Pentium 4?
>
>The problem with Pentium 4 is not just limited with Latex.
>I in fact hate Pentium 4, because I simply believed in
>their high SPEC rating, and bought a bunch of Pentium 4 Xeon
>duals only to find out that the even the Fortran speed
>(with their Intel compiler) is in fact dismal.


I'm not trying to rub salt into your wounds, but anyone thinking of
buying a P4 should first read the article in the link below and then ask
themselves if they really want a P4.  Let's just say that the article is
not very complimentary to the P4 or Intel.

http://www.emulators.com/docs/pentium_1.htm

Andrew

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