Subject: Re: Why are things so slow?
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: port-mips
Date: 06/08/2000 13:59:20
Matt Thomas wrote:

> (cd usr.bin/make; make clean; csh -c 'time make')
> 
> ds5k:   580.7u 183.2s 13:20.01 95.4% 0+0k  15+923io 1193pf+0w
> mp800:  352.1u  68.2s  7:23.12 94.8% 0+0k  12+846io  256pf+0w
> vs4k:   ???.?u  ??.?s  5:42.70 ??.?% 0+0k  19+331io  471pf+0w
> cobalt:  91.1u  16.7s  2:01.75 88.6% 0+0k 786+974io 1078pf+0w

60MHz R4400 (DECsystem 5900/60), src via NFS:

143.4u 29.7s 3:05.16 93.5% 0+0k 313+1178io 391pf+0w

With the DECsystem, 60MHz is the external clock speed, not the internal
doubled clock speed - eg, lmbench reports 119MHz.  I'd say you should
be getting about the same performance as my DEC box all things being
equal.  I'm guessing that the C compiler doesn't do FP - that'd kill
the VR4121...

Simon.