comparing interpreter speed on two platforms

[Chris Barker]

"Steven D. Majewski" wrote:
> > a standard PC:
> > 1. PentiumPro 200Mhz (400BogoMips) Debian Linux 2.2 (Kernel 2.2-17) 64M RAM
> >
> > and an embedded system:
> > 2. PowerPC    ~60Mhz (68BogoMips)  HardHat Linux 2.0 (Kernel 2.4) 16MB RAM

> >Because, as stated in the Linux docs, BogoMips is a meaningless benchmark.

True, but as a rule PPC chips a little faster that Pentiums with the
same clock speed, so I wouldn't expect a 60 Mhz PPC to be 20 times
slower than a 200Mhz Pentium. I have done occasional benchmarks with
Python code, and my 450Mhz Pentium (running Linux) is about the same
speed as my 300Mhz PPC running MacOS 8.6, unless there is a lot of disk
access, in which case the Linux box is much faster.

Of course there are a lot of other factors:

cache: a larger/faster cache could be making a huge difference.

bus speed: memory access time could be very different.

Of course, you have done the right thing: benchmark your actual
application. Now the hard part: find the the bottlenecks, and fixing
them.

-Chris


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