[plug] slowdown probs

[Beau Kuiper]

100mhz 486 vs 100pentium

Pentium 100 is about twice as fast in integer operations
Pentium 100 is at least 3 times as fast in floating point operations
(probably more if you pipeline the floating point commands correctly)

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, John Knight wrote:

> This is a genuine intel Pentium 100 and win32 runs 'em fine (the difference
> between a 486-dx4-100 and Pentium 100 is absolutely
> huge)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Also, please try to remember that it isn't my machine but my mate's.
> nhoJ
> P.S. Sorry for going off at you.
>
> >
> >	I remember I could *just* play 96kbps mp3s using *command line*
> >linux and mpg123 on a 486 dx4-100 years ago. As long as I didnt do anything
> >else, it would only skip sometimes :)
> >
> >	Get a faster machine, or start listening to CDs :)
> >
> >
> >
> >	From:	Steve Grasso <steveg at calm.wa.gov.au> on 22/08/2001 11:44 AM
> >	Please respond to plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
> >	To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
> >	cc:
> >
> >	Subject:	Re: [plug] slowdown probs
> >
> >	OK, try reducing the sample rate to 44 and see if that makes a
> >difference
> >
> >	Steve
> >
> >	<snip!>
> >
> >
> >
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