Re: Hot swap CPU -- "build" is not a good CPU benchmark

[thebs413 at earthlink.net (Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx>)]

From: Peter Arremann <loony@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Compiles aren't a great benchmark for a box since its 100% cpu and
> neglects memory or disk performance but I had the numbers handy
> for that :-)

BTW, it is 100% ALU and a major strain on the ALU LOAD.
In other words, it's not a good benchmark for even CPU.

That's why the 3-issue ALU in the Nx586 on-ward blows the 2-issue
ALU in PPro on-ward (especially the P4) to crap.

But that's all besides the point because it has _0_ to do with
server performance period, even computationally intensive.


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