Re: Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-09-01 Thread Christian Jaeger
PS. just tripped over this: http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/errata.html Gcc 4.2 is has a performance bug that normally cuts performance in half. ATLAS works around this by throwing the flags: -fno-schedule-insns -fno-rerun-loop-opt Maybe you're seeing this issue. Christian. -- To U

Re: Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-08-18 Thread Christian Jaeger
Charles Plessy wrote: Le Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 04:26:27PM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 23:17 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Another example I have is a map website by Yahoo Japan: http://map.yahoo.co.jp/pl?type=scroll&lat=35.35961995&lon=138.73361576&sc=7&mode=map&

Re: Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-08-18 Thread Christian Jaeger
Christian Jaeger wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ time perl -we 'defined(fork) or die; for(1..1000) { $z++ } print "$z\n"; wait' 1000 1000 real0m0.766s user0m0.768s sys0m0.000s Sorry, this number should have been (I did forget the wait call first and then added it without

Re: Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-08-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 04:26:27PM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 23:17 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > Another example I have is a map website by Yahoo Japan: > > http://map.yahoo.co.jp/pl?type=scroll&lat=35.35961995&lon=138.73361576&sc=7&mode=map&pointer=on > > With Ic

Re: Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-08-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 23:17 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 11:10:02AM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : > > On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 10:24 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/PowerPC-AltiVec-Built_002din-Functions.html > > > > These flags are prer

Re: Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-08-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 11:10:02AM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : > On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 10:24 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/PowerPC-AltiVec-Built_002din-Functions.html > > These flags are prerequisites for allowing the resulting binaries to > contain Altivec

Re: Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-08-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 10:24 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 05:32:26PM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : > > 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: so

Re: Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-08-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 05:32:26PM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : > 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. Fo

Re: Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-08-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
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: someth

Re: Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-08-03 Thread Bastian Blank
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 s

Re: Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-08-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
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 freq

Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-08-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, I have to admit that I have always been disappointed to the performance of my iMac running Debian, and have a gut feeling that it is faster under OS X. Yesterday, I found by chance a "System Profiler and Benchmarks" facility in the GNOME Sytem menu, and ran it on my iMac and a int