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Article #1581Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Steve Bakke
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 05:12
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 05:12
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In article <danpop.809177909@rscernix> Dan Pop, Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch writes: >bottleneck). For someone generating fractals or doing data >compression, the cpu is the bottleneck. And guess where is the >bottleneck for the "tar" and "cp" commands? How about "ftp" and "rcp"? :-) > The code would probably remain in the cache for compression. But what about data? For most compression, the file would have to take up several blocks in the cache causing cache misses. The time for those cache fills is probably pretty large compared to the compression execution time which significantly lengthens the amount of time needed to complete the operation. Steve Bakke Computer Engineering University of Cincinnati
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.ultranet.com!usenet From: Steve Bakke <bakke@ultranet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: 24 Aug 1995 05:12:25 GMT Organization: University of Cincinnati Distribution: world Message-ID: <41h1np$pvt@caesar.ultra.net> References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950821100405.5161B-100000-100000@spad.eng.auburn.edu> <danpop.809177909@rscernix> <41fbbd$fc@sundog.tiac.net> <41fv2a$k14@mp.cs.niu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bearcats.ultranet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Nuntius 2.0.4_68K X-XXDate: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 05:26:32 GMT