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Re: [Sheflug] Re: Computer Shop Advice



On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 14:41, Darrell Blake wrote:
> > my 500Mhz laptop will be faster than the 2.5Ghz
> 
> I have to disagree. It's a physical impossibility for a 500MHz machine to run 
> faster than a 2.5GHz machine. Windows doesn't use up than many resources. If 
> you're planning on running it in a CLI then there's no base for comparison 
> because you would have to run Windows in a CLI too in which case the 2.5GHz 
> would still be faster. It seems to me that you're trying to compare a 500MHz 
> CLI machine with a 2.5GHz GUI machine which isn't a really fair trial.
> 

But if you are benchmarking tasks, and Microsoft Windows only allows a
particular task to be executed within a clunky bit of closed-source
code, with little (or Microsoft only peer review), and that task happens
to also include worthless code for drawing windowing by virtue of the
fact it's windows... then it's bound to be slower than some well
developed code that's been open to lots of (harsh?) peer review, without
needless extensions to update widgets on a GUI (with transparency,
fading and all those useless effects).. and code that may be optimised
heavily towards a specific processor.... then there could be a huge
speed increase.

Benchmarking is incredibly difficult to do reliably, but just because
Windows (of late anyway) is tightly integrated into a GUI, doesn't mean
that Linux also has to use a GUI to run it's task in it's way...
benchmarking should be about a specific task using the best available on
each platform- not crippling Linux because of a limitation within
Windows (having to run a GUI).

 
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Adam Allen.

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