Author: Jon Dart
Date: 07:36:07 01/29/00
I recently tried running one of my standard test suites (arasan.epd, available on http://www.best.com/~jdart/arasan.htm) on a Celeron 466 system I have at work. I normally run this on my home machine, which has an AMD K6-2/400. I ran the latest build of Arasan (not yet publically available) at 60 seconds/move with a 16MB hashtable. The results were surprising: Celeron 466 82 correct 119,000 nps average AMD K6-2/400 70 correct 67,000 nps average The machines are different in other ways. The Celeron runs Windows NT 4.0 and has 256MB RAM. The AMD runs Windows 98 and has 64MB. But still, a factor of almost 2 difference in speed with only 16% or so difference in clock speed is quite surprising to me. Any comments on this? I am not deeply familiar with the hardware differences between these chips. --Jon
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