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From: tor@spacetec.no (Tor Arntsen)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:46:32 +0100
In-Reply-To: Derrell Lipman <derrell@vis-av.com>
       "Re: Speed (was Re: NEWS submission)" (Mar 26, 17:25)
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Subject: Re: Speed (was Re: NEWS submission)

On Mar 26, 17:25, Derrell Lipman wrote:
>>>>>> "  William" == William M Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:
>
>  William>   Could there be something architecture-specific that would
>  William> account for this incredible slowdown?  Anyone else see
>  William> ridiculous timings like this?
>
>On a PPRO 200 running FreeBSD, times were as follows:
>
>    Parse	  5 seconds
>    Draw	7.5 minutes
>
>For comparison, Internet Explorer under Windows '95 took 38 seconds to
>render this page.

SGI Challenge R4400:
    Draw	~30 seconds

AIX SP2:
    Draw	~1 mminute

The difference is more or less what I would expect from the subjective
difference between these two.  (Although GIFs takes *forever* do finish
on AIX -- the XEmacs FAQ is impossible to read -- same stuff is almost
instant on the SGI. 15b104 on both)

Tor

