On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 17:56 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 05:32:26PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 11:53 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > > > The result is that on some particular types of computations, the G5 > > > performs extremely bad: something like twice slower as an old 1.5 Ghz > > > Celeron machine. For some other tests, the performances of the > > > processors scale with the frequency. > > > > Most likely, the x86 binaries tend to have optimizations for SSE/MMX > > Which x86 binaries?
The ones he ran on the Core 2 / Celeron CPUs. > > whereas the powerpc binaries tend not to have VMX/Altivec optimizations. > > You need an CPU which supports Altivec first. Most of them does not. The 970 aka G5 does though. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
