[geeks] Sunblade 1K vs MacG4 vs Ultra 60

[Dave McGuire]

On December 12, Bill Bradford wrote:
> >   C'mon Dan...I KNOW you know it comes down to more than just clock
> > speed. ;)
> 
> First thing I did when I got the SB1K:
> 
> Ran RC5.
> 
> The 450Mhz G4 Cube *smoked* the 900Mhz UltraSPARC-III.
> 
> (the mac client was altivec optimized, the sparc one wasnt optimized
>  for that CPU...)

  Yeah, I wonder when they're going to get around to using the VIS
instructions for the UltraSPARCs.  It's ridiculous that those machines
have been out for so long and nobody's done that code yet.

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL