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Re: delay loop

• Posted by Igor Kachan <kinz at peterlink.ru> May 17, 2002
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Hello Ken:

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> Îò: Ken Rhodes <ken_rhodes30436 at yahoo.com>
> Êîìó: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
> Òåìà: Re: delay loop
> Äàòà: ïÿòíèöà, Ìàé 17, 2002 22:17
> 
> this seems strange to me...
> 17950 AMD 1000 Athlon under Windows ME
> 
> but then.. same machine booted into Linux Mandrake 8.3
> 4188!
> 
> Can anyone tell me explain this discrepancy?
> 
> Ken Rhodes

I think, Linux has more clever multitasking than 
Windows ME has.
Then Mandrake 8.3 is optimized just for Athlon,
it seems to be.
I have disks with RH 7.2, it is optimized for Athlon.
What is this optimisation? Partly it may be just a kind
of the soft delays (like Wolf's procedure) for the old software to make it
more similar (for user) to itself 
on the old CPUs.

To have more clear picture with the real *performance*
in this case, you can try to run 3...4 separate processes with Wolf's
soft_delay() on your Athlon under Linux.
Just some thoughts, I do not know exactly.

New CPUs have extra power for most of the usual tasks
supported with the old software, I think.

Old CPUs are slow now, yes, but good and the best old 
software may to look 'extra' fast now, on new CPUs.

Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru