Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 486: Fantastic or Flop? Message-ID: <1073@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 4 Jun 90 02:57:07 GMT References: Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY Lines: 13 I have been running benchmarks on 386s and 486s for about a month now, and the 486 is about 2.6 times as fast as the 386 at the same clock speed *for 32 bit software*. I have noted that the 486 is actually slower for some 16 bit arithmetic. If someone has a benchmark which only measures this, then they will, indeed, get results which make the 486 look bad. Actually if you want to run 16 bit integer programs, the 486 probably is not cost effective. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me