In message <[email protected]> Rob Kendrick <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 02:00:01PM +0000, Jim Nagel wrote: >> John Rickman Iyonix wrote on 24 Feb: [snip] >> >> On Netsurf home page, click Wikipedia link. The Wikipedia home page >> takes 10 seconds to appear on my Iyonix (Ro 5.18, Netsurf #891). > > What were you expecting from a system built using a CPU meant to go on > SCSI cards from 2002 and an OS with a dire IO layer? > > To be honest, I'm amazed it only takes 10 seconds. > > B. > I tried the same test here (RPCEmu089/402 running on a Win7/64 Dell XPS [3.4Ghz quad-core i7 CPU] and it averaged 3 secs over 3 or 4 tries, which seems quite acceptable. I suspect the performance on an Pandaboard ES or Armini would be similar, or better. The Iyo was a fine machine in its day but it is now obsolescent, even by RISC OS standards. On the PC side using Firefox the page takes under a second. Cheers, George -- george greenfield
