[lug] Really off topic

[Jeff Howell]

Whit Morrison wrote:
> 
> I know this doesn't relate to Linux, but I don't think I could find a
> more knowledgeable group to put this question to.  I am running an AMD
> K6-2 400 with 64 meg at home, at work Im using a pentium II 266 64 meg
> running win NT 4.  I started processing data from seti at home at work, and
> it took ~ 15 hours per work unit.  I thought it would be neat to see
> what it would do on my home machine (on both Linux and NT). I was
> disappointed to say the least... the AMD running NT took 25 hours, and
> running Linux it took ~ 14 hours.  As I understand they are doing a
> fourier analysis on the data.  Now with all that out of the way... does
> anyone know why the AMD might perform so poorly?
> It seems to everything else pretty well.
>

Perhaps it's because the K6's FPU is pretty weak compared to Intel's. I see
this a lot In gaming. My buddies running on K6's get half the performance I
do with my Intel chips. The Athlon addressed this quite well. It's FPU is faster
than Intel's current generation CPUs.

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