On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 02:47:46PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> > The DECstation 5000/125 is very slow.  I'd expect to closer to the VAX
> > in terms of performance.  The lack of FP during doesn't matter since
> > that's mostly integer stuff.
> 
> I think there's some crossed wires - what I was trying to say was
> that my DECsystem 5900/60 should be pretty much equal to your mp800
> integer-wise (120MHz r4k internal core vs. 131MHz r4k internal core),
> but your mp800 doesn't have any hardware FP.  One obvious explaination

ISTR that the HPC machines have really poor memory bandwidth, and with
no L2 cache either, gcc probably gets really unhappy about that.


-- 
Soren