[MLUG - DISCUSSION] Ouch: Apple spanked by benchmarks.

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436

Looks like Apple's benchmarks really suck especially considering that 
the PC hardware it was compared with is probably cheaper. And that you 
can stack PC hardware a lot more powerful than a dual-G5. Quad-configs 
aren't unusual in servers and I've seen PC's with up to 32 CPU's in a 
single box. I imagine denser configs exist.

The G5 had mixed scores. A good compiler could do a lot with it but it's 
integer crunching abilities and general memory latency really suck. I 
wonder if the new CPUs in the XBox 360 and PS3 (both PowerPC based) will 
suffer these same issues or if they fixed these issues? I'm betting that 
the PS3's cell processor at least takes care of most of these issues as 
that is part of the reasoning behind all those SPE's. If so Apple may 
have a good future using those in it's hardware.. if not then they need 
some serious help.

OS X (on G5) totally sucks in performance when compared to Linux (on 
x86) but I wish he'd have benchmarked Linux on G5 to give us a better OS 
performance comparison. It does look like OS X's design is severly 
flawed and hurts the performance a lot especially in threaded apps. They 
should have learned from the discussion on these same issues that Linux 
people had some time back. Linus said that microkernels kill performance 
and it looks like it's really true.

I'd like to see Apple respond to this with any tips they have. Obviously 
out-of-the-box they get spanked but maybe there is a way to tune the 
system, or better compile the software, to run faster?

Speed is definately not the only measure of an OS.. but since I already 
hate OS X's interface  and apps on OS X crash frequently (workstation 
OS's were never met for me) this is just one more black mark on my list.

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Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://kavlon.org

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