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- From: newton@cs.utexas.edu (Peter Newton)
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- Subject: Re: Information on: The IIvi, IIvx, and Performa 600
- Date: 16 Aug 1992 20:23:39 -0500
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- > <cough> <cough> <cough> <cough> Ehhem... You said that the LCII and
- > the IIsi were almost comparable in CPU performance??!?!
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- Computer performance benchmarking is a tricky business. I bet I could
- create a very contrived benchmark in which the LCII beats a IIsi!
- But, I have tested the IIsi against a Classic II (lots like an LC II)
- and an SE/30. My tests were CPU-oriented-- they do not measure disk
- or graphics. The IIsi ws 1.7 times faster than a Classic II and about
- 15% faster than the SE/30. The test program is a theorem prover, and
- I ran with a large cache to eliminate contention to the Isi's dual
- ported video RAM, however this appears to speed up the IIsi's graphics
- display much more than anything else.
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- Peter Newton (newton@cs.utexas.edu)
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