Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Anthony D. Tribelli
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 18:18

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Alex P. Novickis (apn@devlabs.com) wrote:
: > Which could be telling us more about Mathmatica's implementation and 
: > the compilers used to build Mathematica than the hardware Mathematica 
: > is being run on. Just something to consider. Using a 
: > commercial application to evaluate hardware is tricky. If you pick 
: > the right application you can "prove" nearly anything. In this 
: > specific case I think the general idea that the PPC system is faster 
: > for purely computational code is correct. 

: So... What, now you are saying the compilers on PC's suck ???

No, I am saying that there are so many variables affecting the overall
performance of an application that you have to be careful using an
application to "benchmark" a CPU. A compiler is one variable. The source
code is another, it is easy to write RISC or CISC optimized code. There 
are many more variables as well.

Tony

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