Re: Performance comparison Mac OSX vs. Windows XP
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- Subject: [mg69947] Re: Performance comparison Mac OSX vs. Windows XP
- From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:14:51 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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Hi, why so complicated, in the Utilities`Benchmark` Package you have almost everything to compare the speed it Mathematica and yes on my iMac running Windows and OS X the OS X benchmark is 25 % slower. Regards Jens "Blackadder" <Malte at t-online.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:efdkcl$st$1 at smc.vnet.net... | Dear NG, | | recently I switched from a Dell notebook to a MacBook Pro. We licensed | Mathematica 5.2.2.0, which is a Universal Binary on Mac OSX. Yesterday, | a colleague sent me a notebook with some intensive computations and | asked me to test the speed on my MacBook. | | The results were quite surprising and earned me quite a few smirks from | my fellow coworkers. Here's what I got: | | Dell Latitude 505 (1.6 Ghz, 512 MB RAM): 263.44 secs | | MacBook Pro 17" (2.1 Ghz, 2 GB RAM): 402,18 secs | | | This means that my MacBook is about 35 % slower than a technically | inferior Windows notebook. Does anybody have experiences with the | performance of Mathematica on different OSes? Has anybody notices | similar behavior between the Windows and Mac OS versions? Any hints or | comments are very welcome. | | Kind regards, Malte | | | p.s.: If you are interested in running the Mathematica notebook on your | Mac, I'm happy to send you a copy by e-mail. |