[rescue] point of pride in SGI R10k vs. 1Ghz x86...

[Ken Hansen]

Ooww - this really makes me anxious to see my incoming SGIs - a 175 MHz R10K
Indigo2 and a 4x 195 MHz R10K Onyx...

Whee!

Ken
("All I want for X-Mas is my two SGIs...")

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] point of pride in SGI R10k vs. 1Ghz x86...


> On November 12, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> > keep in mind that the R10K isn't doing all the work.  that's what the
gfx H/W
> > is for.  that's what makes them SGI machines. :)
>
>   Gimp (and stuff like it) won't use the graphics hardware at all in
> this case, dudage.  It's raw R10K testicles.
>
>   I wonder, Patrick...in this case, was gimp compiled to take full
> advantage of the R10K processor, with a decent-for-MIPS-arch
> (i.e. SGI's, not GCC) compiler?  If not, it's likely that it could do
> even better.



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