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From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Simple X windows benchmark
Message-ID: <1990Jul30.235929.29962@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: 30 Jul 90 23:59:29 GMT
References: <1990Jul28.014025.17578@pegasus.com> <1990Jul30.020330.6291@pcrat.uucp>
Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA
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In article <1990Jul30.020330.6291@pcrat.uucp> rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes:
>>	Cpu:		33MHz 386 (Mylex), 128k cache, 8megs RAM
>>	80387:		no
>>	Time:		1:43

>	Cpu:		16MHz 386 (Mylex), 64k cache, 4MB 32 bit + 4MB 16 bit
>	80287:		yes
>	Time:		1:39
>
>This is rather strange. The elapsed times are so close, ...

The X11R3 does a lot of floating point arithmetic, so the 287 makes a lot
of difference.  I gather that the X11R4 sample server has been rewritten
to do as much as possible as integer.  It would be interesting to see some
relative figures on the R4 server.

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