[rescue] Compaq Proliant 8000

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Fri Apr 30 11:50:01 CDT 2004


On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 12:48:07PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   Actually, take a closer look at your benchmarks.  Where SPARC falls 
> down is floating-point performance.  The integer performance is quite 
> good.  The FP performance has, historically, always sucked.
> 
>   Which, for me, is fine...because I have Machines (with a capital "M") 
> which are *only* good for serious FP.

*nominates Dave for the Nobel Prize in Understatement*

:)


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