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- From: Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
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- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 96 10:35:39 GMT
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- Karl Thomas (kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
- : Nicolas POMAREDE <pomarede> writes:
- :
- : >Lars Nelson <lars@infohwy.com> wrote:
- : >>Karl Thomas wrote:
- :
- : >> One benchmark was faster than another. So what. Don't you know
- : >>that software applications run on a 68060 Amiga can run faster than on a
- : >>Pentium Mhz for Mhz. Have you tried running Lightwave on a Pentium versus
- : >>a 68060? Amiga wins. What's hilarious is that the Pentium is a 64-bit
- : >>processor running on new hardware, and the 68060 is still 32-bit and
- : >>running on old hardware.
- :
- : What benefit would Motorola derive from underestimating their own benchmarks?
- :
- : >An italian paper on raytracing/rendering has made a test last month to
- : >compare the cyberstorm against a P133. They used one of the test picture
- : >of Lightwave (the one with 16 cubes with different mapping effects).
- : >The pentium 133 took approx. 12 min. and the 68060/60 took a little more
- : >than 13 min.
- : >In other word, this would mean that the 68060 was twice faster than
- : >the P133 (considering that it ran at half clock speed).
- :
- : Do you actually think that the '060-66 is twice as fast as the Pentium?
- : LightWave just wasn't well optimized for the Pentium if this is the case.
- : Most programs aren't as well optimized for the secondary market they're
- : ported to, I can give you many examples of Mac programs that aren't as
- : optimized for Windows when they are ported and Windows programs that
- : aren't as well optimized for the Mac.
-
- To be fair, Lightwave is only optimised for the '040. I don't know if
- there is a compiler with an '060 option.
-
- C-YA
- Jon
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