On Fri, Jan 02, 2004, Skip Montanaro wrote:
Michael Hudson:
Skip:
800 MHz Ti PowerBook (G4), using Python from CVS, output of make (second run of two, to make sure pyo files were already generated):
time python -O b.py >@out
real 0m49.999s user 0m46.610s sys 0m1.030s cmp @out out
The best-of-three pystone measurement is 10964.9 pystones/second.
Bloody hell, that about what I get on my 600Mhz G3 iBook (same model as Dan's, sounds like). Does your TiBook have no cache or a *really* slow bus or something?
The Apple System Profiler says my bus speed is 133MHz. I have a 256K L2 cache and a 1MB L3 cache. The machine has 1GB of RAM.
Some rather simple operations slow down considerably after the system's been up awhile (and I do tend to leave it up for days or weeks at a time). I don't recall how long it had been up when I ran those tests. I just ran pystone again - it's been up 2 days, 19 hrs at the moment - and got significantly better numbers:
What version of OS X and developer tools? I'm a tiny bit surprised that you say your machine stays up for weeks at a time; that implies you don't install security updates. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.