On Thu, 09 Mar 2000 18:14:19 +0000, Michael L. Dawley wrote:
> I set two computers side by side, one much faster, with a 586
> processor and 32 MB ram, but with 1.50b2 on it. The other, with
> a DX2-50 486, only had 8 mb ram, but had 1.60b1.
> Put both on HOME, my local start page on the drives, and then
> raced them back to Desktop. The DX2-50 won by a wide margin,
> using 160b1. I was so impressed that I immediately installed
> 1.60b1 on the 586, confident that I had the faster browser.
Hi Michael;
Now, to complete the experiment, you should put 1.50b2 on the '486
and test them again. To be fair, 1.50b2 should REPLACE 1.60b1 - not
just be added to the drive. There are a lot of factors which affect
that kind of test.
The timing measurements I made indicated that 1.60b1 IS faster than
1.50b2, but not enough to win that race if the '586 clock was 75Mhz.
In my tests, the versions were all tested using the same hardware
and the same test files by unzipping the required version to my
ramdisk.
I believe the '486 will still win if there really was a LARGE margin
before. Since I found only about a 20% diffference in speed, there
must be some other factor at work here. (IMHO)
- Clarence Verge
-- Using Arachne 1.50b2 for a change.
