Re: Re: Performance comparison Mac OSX vs. Windows XP
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- Subject: [mg70009] Re: [mg69975] Re: Performance comparison Mac OSX vs. Windows XP
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 05:12:37 -0400 (EDT)
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I would speculate that Mathematica 5.2 PowerPC kernel was simply re- compiled for Intel Macs without any, or with only minimal, additional optimisation. If so, then probably you will have to wait for the next version before making a "fair" comparison. Andrzej Kozlowski On 28 Sep 2006, at 19:16, Blackadder wrote: > Chris pointed out that I didn't give enough hardware specs for my > MacBook to answer the question. Here we go: > > Dell Latitude 505: 263.44 secs > 1.6 Ghz Intel Pentium M (Centrino) > 512 MB DDR RAM >> 20 GB free space on 4200 rpm hdd > > MacBook Pro 17": 402,18 secs > 2.16 Ghz Intel Core Duo > 2 GB DDR2 RAM >> 20 GB free space on 5400 rpm hdd > > > The computations do not involve any graphics output, so the video > adapter should not be relevant. I checked hardware resource allocation > on both systems by using some freeware system information software. > Both systems run at highest cpu frequencies, Mathematica uses only one > cpu core for computation on the MacBook Pro. Nonetheless, I > expected at > least 25 % faster performance on the MacBook, not 40 % slower. > > Can anybody give more information on this? > > Bye, Malte. >
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- Re: Performance comparison Mac OSX vs. Windows XP
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- Re: Performance comparison Mac OSX vs. Windows XP