[OS X TeX] Please test this: (Modified by Gerben Wierda)

[Claus Gerhardt]

Here is my result

G5 at 2.5GHz (CPU settings automatic, 2.87GB free memory, 10.4.2) 12.78  
real         9.26 user         3.23 sys

I used the command

sudo time  /Users/claus/Library/Flashmode/bin/tex-perf

Claus

On Aug 24, 2005, at 0:13, Gerben Wierda wrote:

> On Aug 23, 2005, at 23:37, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>
>> Le 22 août 05 à 02:03, Gerben Wierda a écrit :
>>
>>
>>> I would be interested in getting results from the fllowing test:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>
>> Adding my result to the preceding ones:
>>
>> 2.0Ghz Dual G5 PowerMac 10.4.2   17.03 real   13.08 user    3.88  
>> sys   (Ralph)
>> 1.5Ghz G4 PowerBook 10.4.2       27.58 real   18.57 user    4.90  
>> sys   (Ralph)
>> 1.0GHz G4 PowerBook 10.4.2       37.69 real   26.24 user    5.07  
>> sys   (Bruno)
>> 800MHz G4 eMac 10.4.2            46.30 real   27.45 user   11.02  
>> sys   (Norm)
>> 500MHz G4 Cube 10.3.9 Server     48.05 real   29.43 user    7.98  
>> sys   (Gerben)
>> 1.2GHz G4 iBook 10.4.2           56.60 real   44.75 user    8.48  
>> sys   (Gerben)
>>
>> Happy Ralph!
>>
>> I'm surprised Gerben's iBook, with higher clock frequency than my  
>> PowerBook, runs actually slower. Could it be caused by other  
>> concurrent processes? Or by the amount of RAM (mine has been  
>> upgraded to 1GB)? Or the rest of the hardware (caches etc.)?
>>
>
> The disk is really, really slow. I'd like a larger/faster one in  
> this iBook. What I find surprising is how fast my Cube is compared  
> to the powerbooks and eMac. Here too, the disk is probably the  
> culprit (I am running a fast disk with 8MB cache).
>
> Note: to compare add user and sys. Forget about real (the  
> difference is spent in other programs). Except when you are running  
> on Mactel and are using ppc binaries, in that case a lot of time is  
> spent in another process (Rosetta) which is not reported this way  
> and real is all you got.
>
> G
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