Re: DX2-66 vs DX50

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From: Othman Ahmad
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 16:35

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Paul De Bra (debra@wsinis07.info.win.tue.nl) wrote:
: 
: Well, the effect of the 8K internal cache is greater than you might suspect.
: I ran some tests (under unix) which i derived from old Byte benchmarks
: (but adapted for the faster machines available today).
: 
: 
: This suggests that even for heavy multitasking the 8K internal cache
: should make a DX2-66 come out ahead over a DX-50.
: 
: Given 500 interrupts per second (that's an awful lot for a Unix system)
: the time in between interrupts is still enough for a 486 to execute
: 20000 to 40000 instructions, enough to take advantage of the 8K internal
: cache.
: 
Have you tried it on X11 benchmarks? Those graphic servers require lots
of memory.

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Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
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