Author: Oliver Y.
Date: 18:00:37 05/30/98
Just read the latest Byte magazine which mentioned ByteInteger scores for the G3 chip as 9.8/292MHz v.s. about 5.4? for the PII-400, approx... Questions: 1. Why is the difference in scores not reflected in the SpecInteger measurement (12.? v.s. 11.?); and which is more relevant to the strength of Hiarcs6? 2. How did the developers port Hiarcs to the Mac? Did they do a thorough job, with the foresight to consider the issue in the following question? 3. How much is the performance of Hiarcs affected by the size of the backside cache? as well as the speed? 4. I understand that the harddrive is not accessed much, but how important is the system bus speed? 5. Any other considerations re whether the G3 Desktop system's design makes it a reasonable choice for those who just want to surf and analyse? I already know that FP doesn't matter for chess analysis... I don't know much about computers. Why does the SSDF not rate the H6 on a Mac? 6. Any guess as to what Hiarcs 6 could be rated at if the Byte score is correctly construed to effectively be analogous to a "1050MHz PentiumII? Approx... Any comment would be helpful. The iMac debuts in August, and though it has some limitations, it could possibly be a nice unit to analyse with Hiarcs, or any other Mac software...
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