[SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC

[nick at ns.snowman.net]

Nope, X86 has a hardware rotate.  Why?  No one knows (I'm sure someone
does, but RC5 is the only thing ever to seriously use it).  That is just
one of hundreds of quirks. (each arch has many, and that makes for alot of
combinations.)
	Nick

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, John F. Davis wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 01:54:39PM -0400, nick at ns.snowman.net wrote:
> > It all depends on what you are doing.  At rc5 decryption a slow 486 will
> > Stomp on anything up to a [,super,hyper]sparc 100 or 150.  I don't know of
> > any other examples like that, however they exist.
> > 	Nick
> 
> Is that because the 486 has a dedicated floating point coprocessor whereas
> the sparc doesn't?
> 
> For what its worth, here are some benchmarks I have gathered using some code I wrote
> myself.  It shows how many seconds different computers take to complete a benchmark.
> 
> 
> About the benchmark.  It is a tcl script which solves cryptograms using a dictionary
> and pattern matching.  I tried to always use the same version of tcl interpeter so
> results would be more evenly matched.  I chose to use tcl since it can run on any
> os/cpu.  Also, this started out as a learning exercise for tcl and not as a benchmark.
> However, since it takes such a long time to run, it makes a good benchmark program.
> 
> And yet another thing.  When I tested the e450 at work, it was not loaded.  It would
> be nice to see the results of an unloaded e450.  It would also be nice to see how long
> it takes to perform mulitple tests simultaneously for multiprocessor computers.
> 
> Here are the results sorted best to worst in order of seconds to complete
> the benchmark:
> 
> 
> Crypto stats
> ---------------------------------------------
> P3  733Mhz
> 256 Megs
> NT 4.0 Service Patch 5.0
> NTFS
> UDMA-66 IBM 37420 7200 rpm
> tcl8.0
> 107s
> ---------------------------------------------
> K7/Athlon  700Mhz
> 256 Megs
> NT 4.0 Service Patch 4.0
> NTFS for OS
> FAT for script and dictionary
> UDMA-33 IBM 7200 rpm
> tcl8.22
> 113s
> ---------------------------------------------
> p3 600Mhz
> 384 Megs
> NT 4.0 Service Patch 5.0
> NTFS
> Adaptec AHA-2940 U2
> Ultra2 LVD SCSI Fast and Wide
> 2 MB Data buffer, 7.0 ms seek
> 80 MB transfer rate, 7200 rpm
> tcl8.0  146s no typo 8.0 is faster
> tcl8.22 164s
> ---------------------------------------------
> p3 400Mhz
> 256 Megs
> NT 4.0 Service Patch 5.0
> NTFS
> UW scsi
> tcl 8.0 212s
> ---------------------------------------------
> p3 500Mhz
> 128 Megs
> RedHat 6.1
> UDMA-33 Disk
> tcl8.22 164s
> tcl8.0 281s
> ---------------------------------------------
> p3 450Mhz
> 256 Megs
> NT 4.0 Service Patch 5.0
> NTFS
> UDMA Disk
> tcl 8.0 334s
> ---------------------------------------------
> E450
> Mhz
> megs
> Solaris ??
> SunOS ??	
> tcl 8.x 412s
> ---------------------------------------------
> p200mmx
> 64megs
> NT 4.0 Service Patch 4.0
> NTFS 	
> tcl 8.0 419s 420s
> ---------------------------------------------
> ultra10 300mhz 
> ultrasparc-IIi 
> 128megs 
> solaris 2.5.1 
> 685s
> ---------------------------------------------
> p200 
> 48megs 
> w95		
> 963s 990s
> ---------------------------------------------
> p133 
> 64megs 
> w95		
> 1045s
> ---------------------------------------------
> cyrix 150
> 16megs 
> debian
> 200 meg ide	
> 8.0 1428s
> ---------------------------------------------
> 86dx4-100 
> 64megs 
> nt4.0
> ntfs
> 3446s
> ---------------------------------------------
> p75 
> 24megs
> slackware  linux 3.51
> 3533s
> ---------------------------------------------
> sparc 10
> sm-40 (40 Mhz no cache)
> 7200 rpm scsi 2 hard disk
> tclsh 8.1  3540 s (just a tad faster than the sparc 5 ???)
> ---------------------------------------------
> sparc 5
> 110Mhz Processor
> 64 Megs Ram
> fast wide scsi-2 5400rpm hard disk
> Debian Linux 2.1
> tclsh 8.1  1 hr even  = 60 mins =3600 s
> ---------------------------------------------
> sparc lx
> 50Mhz Processor
> 96 Megs Ram
> scsi-2 7200rpm hard disk
> Debian Linux 2.1
> tclsh 8.0 2 hrs 24 mins = 144 mins = 8640 s
> tclsh 8.1 2 hrs 29 mins = 149 mins = 8940 s
> 
> > 
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