Subject: Re: DES contest
To: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 04/11/1997 08:28:36
On Thu, Apr 10, 1997 at 02:55:55PM -0400, Michael Graff wrote:
> > A friend claims his P133 running linux runs at 357914 keys/s - weird or
> > what? :-o
> 
> No, depressing.
> 
> On a P90 running linux I get about 212k/sec.  On a P166 running NetBSD
> (both idle) I get 173k/sec.

Try the freebsd client.  It's much faster than the bsdi one.

Still, my cyrix 6x86 running at 133 MHz (the so-called 166+) is _slower_
than a real pentium at 90 MHz.  Wasn't cyrix supposed to run faster in
integer operations?

(Gee, did I see nice TFT displays at the Finnish electronics fair
yesterday..  oh boy.. :-)))

  -jm


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