Subject: RE: Incredible!
From: Ruprecht, Chris (cruprech@compucom.com)
Date: Wed Sep 12 2001 - 14:28:47 MDT
Go to Apple's Web site and read the article on the 'Megahertz Myth'. I
think that gives you a good explanation. AFAIK, the GCC compiler which
comes with YDL 2.0 does not (yet) support the AltiVec Unit.
Best regards,
Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mac Man [mailto:macman@onetel.net.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 3:17 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Incredible!
>
>
> I just got through running an alpha of the modelling program I am
> working on, under both RedHat and YDL, and I don't understand
> it. Could
> someone who is technically minded, explain to me why this G4, Dual
> Processor 800 MHz, goes about 15 times faster then the Dual Processor
> Pentium 4, 1.8 GHz. Both machines have 1.5 Gigs of Memory. I'm a
> mathematician not a computer guru. And my math skills say that 1.8
> GHz >> 0.8 GHz.
>
> Alex
>
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