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

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From: Jason D. Malone
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 22:03
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gupta@mrspock.mt.att.com (Arun Gupta) wrote:
>On Byte benchmarks, my 7100/66 ( 601 PPC at 66 MHz, main bus 33 MHz)
>runs at between 0.90 and 0.95 on integer benchmarks depending on
>the level of optimization, on which the Dell XPS P-90 (Pentium 90 MHz, 
>main bus 66 MHz) by definition scores 1.0.  On floating point
>multiplication and division my PPC scores 1.2 .  On floating point
>using the exp(), sin(), cos() functions, my PPC however, is 10-15
>times slower than the Pentium.  I am told this is because of a rather
>poor math library -- I will find out more about this as I update my
>system software from the now-venerable System 7.1.2.


First---I question this....Secondly, there's no way in hell
that a PPC can remotely compare to the Pentium....look
at the SPEC numbers, you will se.....BTW the upcoming
620 is expected to get a 4 (MUA HAHAH)
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 21 Mar 1996 22:03:27 GMT
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