On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 11:53 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > The result is that on some particular types of computations, the G5 > performs extremely bad: something like twice slower as an old 1.5 Ghz > Celeron machine. For some other tests, the performances of the > processors scale with the frequency.
Most likely, the x86 binaries tend to have optimizations for SSE/MMX whereas the powerpc binaries tend not to have VMX/Altivec optimizations. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
