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From: Felix von Leitner <leitner AT math DOT fu-berlin DOT de>
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Subject: Re: please benchmark / MMX #2
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Thus spake Jukka Vuokko at Juke's own Linux machine (jvuokko AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi):
> AMD K6-2 300MHz ( 3x 100MHz) results:
> File: "povsrc.tar"
> Size: 3717120      Filetype: Regular File        

>         usr    sys  elapsed
> mmx     10.43  0.11 0:10.53
> nommx    9.76  0.11 0:09.86
> mmxonly 10.45  0.08 0:10.53

I just benchmarked the same binary on the same file, and I got about
17.2 secs user for nommx and 20.1 secs for mmx.  I have a K6-166.  This
might serve as an interesting number for people considering to upgrade.

Extrapolating linearly, I would have expected a running time for the
K6-2 of

  17.2/3*1.66 = 9.52, it delivered 9.76

The K6-2 scales almost linearly on bzip2.  Now we should find a more CPU
intensive benchmark.  How about the SSLeay "speed" benchmark?  Or maybe
a ray tracer?  Maybe we should make a real-world benchmark!  For
example, the three things where _I_ need CPU speed most are

  * mp3 encoding
  * compiling stuff
  * quake ;)

BTW: bzip2-nommx on a Pentium II 266 takes about 8.3 seconds, so it
clearly outperforms the K6-2 300.  And for the MP3 and Quake benchmarks
are FPU intensive, so the K6 would obviously not be a good choice for me
(if the saved money is not the issue).

Felix