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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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