----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Marchant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 11:10 AM Subject: Re: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:41:09 -0700, Dean Kent > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > >> > ... a Dell Precision Workstation 330 system with a 1.4GHz P4 in > >> >Nov 2000 the SPECint_rate was 5.80. In June 2006, a Dell Precision > >> >Workstation 390 with a 2.93GHz Intel Core Duo processor was 63.6. > >> >Obviously one cannot make a direct comparison between MIPS and SPEC > rate, > >> > >> You are confusing MIPS and MHz. MIPS may be meaningless, but MHz > means > >> far less. > > > >No, I am not. > > That's funny. I could have swown that you wrote, "a 1.4GHz P4 ... > SPECint_rate was 5.80.... a 2.93GHz Intel Core Duo processor was 63.6. > Obviously one cannot make a direct comparison between MIPS and SPEC > rate.... > Yes. I did. I wrote "SPECint_rate was 5.80.... SPECint_rate was 63.6". You are missing the forest for the trees. The *performance* comparison is the SPECint_rate score. The MHz number was given as a reference in case anyone wished to look it up. So, no, I am not confusing MHz with performance. Regards, Dean > -- > Tom Marchant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
