On 11/10/05, Fredrik Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However... > > I used the test script found here > http://www.xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/sultra_skami.html > > on the Mobile Pentium 4 1600 MHz with Gentoo installed. THe script > completed in 17 seconds , with some apps running. Comparing this to > other reports, my 1600 MHz with Gentoo on it is as good as a Athlon > XP 2600+ (Barton), 1900MHz with RedHat 8 on it, and one second faster > than a Intel Pentium 4 CPU 1.80GHz with Debian on it. > > I'm not saying that this is a true test of performance (I believe that > there is no such thing), but at least in this case, the "myth" does > seem to have SOME merit. I should add that I have not spent lots of > time configuring stuff for speed, only a healty set of USE settings > and compiling for pentium 3 with -O3. No pre-linking (that I know of). > > I should perhaps also add that these numbers mean absolutelly NOTHING > on a MythTV box. In my experience, HD speed is the bottleneck.. I use > the laptop for scientific calculations, and that is a totally > different story. MythTV ( and even more so IVTV ) users should choose > Gentoo beacause of the flexibility of Portage.
The flipside is that the Pentium M processor simply beats the rest of those CPUs on a bang per Mhz basis. I suspect your use of Gentoo has little to do with the performance difference thanks to the well designed Pentium M. I say this as a Gentoo user :). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_M _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
