RE: about Ultra-sparc and alpha: what makes the difference?

2004-03-31 Thread Toni Heinonen
They are faster most often because they can process more complex commands, so whereas an IA processor might do 1000 MIPS and a SPARC does as many, the SPARC is faster because it gets more done with as many instructions. Try search terms like benchmark sparc intel or benchmark sparc pc or the

Re: about Ultra-sparc and alpha: what makes the difference?

2004-03-30 Thread scion+fbsdq
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 01:27:51 +0800 From: Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello. The question sounds really silly, but google with compare sparc i386 alpha / benchmark sparc i386 alpha doesn't give meaningful result in several pages. Please suggest me a better keyword compilation:) How about