Re: UNIX version vs Mac/Win/Linux version
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg33382] Re: UNIX version vs Mac/Win/Linux version
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:38:55 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi, > I've heard people say that mathematica is much slower (in general) on > a Unix machine (let's say an SGI Octane--I have one. :) than on a > windows/linux or macintosh computer. Why is this so? Because your Octane (I have one) should be much slower than a actual PC -- say an Athlon XP 2000 + (I have one) Mathemtica does not upgrade you hardware. > This doesn't make > sense, since the unix version is much more expensive! You usual buy a two-process license, i. e., two Mathematica's in the PC sense > Does it have to > do with the fact that Wolfram doesn't optimize for risc systems? It is optimized for RISC systems ! but you can't expect that a 900 MHz machine (say Sun Blade) is faster than a 2.2 GHz Intel processor. Regards Jens