Despite that I thought that the difference is too big. I aimed this question to finding possible other reasons that contribute (perhaps to lesser extent) to this lag.
Jan Slodicka ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 6:02 PM Subject: Re: How fast is the Palm? > Jan Slodicka wrote: > > m515 run the program (approx.) 1000x slower than the PC whereas the > > processor speed differs by a factor 50 only. > > CE machine was only 2 times slower than the processor speed difference would > > suggest. > > > > As the last thing I wrote an easy stupid benchmark program consisting of > > loops and additions. The results were a bit better, but the Palm was still > > 10x slower than the processor speeds would suggest. > > processor clock speeds are really only useful for comparing > speed between 2 of the same chips. even comparing processor > speeds between pIII and p4 is a little shakey. > > clock speeds are a very imprecise measure for the speed of a > computer, even with just the CPUs. Add to that all the > differences of I/O, memory, caching, instruction sets, > having or not having a FPU, pipelining and everthing else > that is different and the clock speed is pretty much useless > for comparing speeds between to machines. > > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
