Subject: Re: NetBSD/vax 2.0 on simh
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Brian Hechinger <wonko@4amlunch.net>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/09/2004 10:57:51
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:22:29AM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> 
> Probably not a whole lot better... simh is single-threaded, so it'll 
> only really use one CPU, and there's probably not much speed difference 
> to SimH between the same MHz PPC G3 and UltraSparcII.  Almost 
> definately no more than 50% better, and the UltraSparc might actually 
> be worse (for CPU intensive tasks).  Sun Ultrasparc machines - 
> especially the Exy00 enterprise machines - are built for I/O 
> performance, not CPU horsepower.  

oh, i know all about 3500s, and didn't expect it to be all that much faster. ;)

and it wasn't!!

VAX MIPS rating =      1.706 

-brian
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