Subject: Re: Why are things so slow?
To: None <port-mips@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
List: port-mips
Date: 06/13/2000 14:11:34
>>> (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
>
> 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.

25MHz R3000 processor should slightly run faster than VS4000/60.  Can
we have lmbench result and compare them?  The sluggish program
throughput could be explained by ineffeciencies in TLB and cache
operations. 

Tohru Nishimura