> > > If you're interested (and not just trolling) I can give you some CPU > > > benchmarks run with a floating point intensive number crunching > > > application to compare a G3/400 with a range of Intel machines > > > (PI/233 to PIII/500 currently). > > > > ive found my G3/400 to be about on par with my celery 466, the only > > thing that seems slower on ppc to me is the compiler, and the > > framebuffer (compared to VGA textmode which is not fair ;-)) > > That's about what I see (scaling the performance to equal CPU clock).
Where are you guys getting this? Just based on observation? Just for the record, my upgraded G3/350 appears (visually) much faster than my PII/366. Both machines use XFree86 4.0, kernel 2.4+, and the woody packages. Several factors can cause your PPC box to "appear" slower than an equivelant (in clock speed) Intel box: Which X server you are running (xpmac and xfree86 3.x are undoubtedly much slower than xf4), the number of daemons you have running, kernel version, etc. But I personally have not found Debian on PowerPC to be any slower just by observation... I will time some kernel builds and generate a few 1024-bit key pairs later today and post the results.. -j
