OT: Recommended Linux Laptops, suppliers?

[Cliff Wells]

On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 10:04, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     Brian> Are you sure that a 1GHz G4 is slower than a 2GHz Celeron? I'm
>     Brian> not.
> 
>     Skip> Here are some Pystone numbers from my 800 MHz Ti
>     Skip> Powerbook.
> 
>     Skip>     Interpreter                 Best pystone
>     Skip>     2.1                         10482
>     Skip>     2.2                         11210
>     Skip>     CVS                         13123
> 
> I almost forgot about this Windows machine sitting over my shoulder... ;-)
> At any rate, using it from Cygwin, I get 27855 pystones for the Python 2.2
> interpreter.  It's got a 2.8GHz P4.  Making useless numbers even more
> useless, I extrapolated my 800MHz G4 to 1GHz, giving 14012 pystones, and
> extrapolated my 2.8GHz P4 down to 2GHz, giving 19896 pystones.  Someone else
> posted a URL from which they guessed a 20% hit for a Celeron vs. a P4, which
> brings that down to 15916.  Under the right circumstances, it would appear a
> 1GHz G4 might do fairly well against a 2GHz Celeron.

I'm not sure that Cygwin is all that efficient (IIRC, it uses Windows'
POSIX layer which is suboptimal).  I'd be more interested in seeing a
native Win32 benchmark.  

However, useless numbers are fun so here's my Athlon 1.4GHz, Python
2.2.1:

Pystone(1.1) time for 50000 passes = 3.16
This machine benchmarks at 15822.8 pystones/second

I haven't tried the python cvs version yet, but extrapolating from
*your* numbers <wink> I'm guessing that it'll hit 18522 pystones.



PC's that live in clear plastic houses shouldn't throw pystones <wink>


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