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Re: Executor Speed



andreas@karlsberg.usask.ca (Andreas Schiffler) writes:

>Blacker (fran@sbbs.se) wrote:
>: How fast (i.e which mac will be comparable in speed with) will Executor run on 
>: an Pentium 90/100 with 8 mb ram and S3 864 video card

>With 8MB of RAM you'll have trouble in X-windows. You should get at least
>12MB to avoid excessive swapping. I have the same video card and the video
>performance is OK for most applications. Here are some benchmarks I did for
>the LJ article that was just published:

>		MAC LC III 68040, 25 MHz		AMD486DX4-100
>							S3 864, 8bit X
>							under Linux 1.2.8

Note that the LCIII is a 25 MHz 68030, not an '040. An 030 is roughly equal in
speed to a 386 at the same clock.

>Dhrystones	5.9					8.4

>Spedometer 
>CPU index	6.8					13.9

>Spedometer
>Graphics	7.6					5
>							5.1 (-privatecmap)
>Spedometer
>8bit graphics	2.3					1.2
>							2.5 (-privatecmap)

>Bottomline the DX4-100 is faster than a Mac LC III for almost everything and
>if one uses the -privatecmap option for X-windows the grapics performance is
>reasonable with an accelerated graphics card.

>Hope that helps
>Andreas


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