Re: buildworld times

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Wes Peters wrote:

> On Saturday 28 February 2004 06:39 pm, Vincent Poy wrote:
> >
> > 	The original Willimette P4 was pretty poor in performance but I
> > think the Northwood is better.  I'm running a Northwood Mobile P4
> > 2.6Ghz CPU which is the maximum this machine supports so I don't really
> > have a choice and this is a high-end notebook at the time as it pretty
> > much has the same specs as the Dell Precision M50 with 2GB Memory which
> > I did by changing the HD, video card and also the CPU and memory.  My
> > desktop runs on a P4-3.2C with HyperThreading and 2GB and 7200rpm
> > drives as well and that machine is pretty fast.
>
> Athlons seem to do a bit better at large compilations that similar P4's.
> This appears to be partly due to bigger cache, and partly better brach
> prediction, from what I've gathered at Anandtech and elsewhere.  My
> Athlon XP 2000+, 1667 MHz home machine consistently beats my P4 2.0 GHz
> work machine at compiling the same system and kernel, by 10 - 12%.
>
> The Athlon is on a Via KT600 mobo; the P4 is on an Intel 845 mobo.  The
> drives are WD800J for the Athlon and a Seagate 40GB ATA133 on the P4; I
> don't know the model number or cache size.
>
> Long live AMD!  ;^)

	Hehe.  AMD does seem to be fast even for Windows machines compared
to Intel though. ;)  A question is for everyone who has all the quick
buildworld times, are  you actually using softfs?


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