[Virtualacorn-list] Speed of Iyonix??

[ATimbrell at aol.com]

In a message dated 07/10/2008 07:37:24 GMT Daylight Time,  
rogerarm at freeuk.com writes:

>My earlier question asked about a replacement Iyonix, 
>by using some sort of VRPC.

>However, I have since heard that  even if I had the fastest Mac 
>possible, a 3.2GHz 8-core thingy, it will  not run at equal or greater 
>than the Iyonixs; speed, but much less,  maybe only 30% of the Iyonixs' 
>speed.
 
I am not sure who told you this, but it's absolute nonsense. On a  modern
Mac (Intel Dual Core) a VirtualRPC will outperform an Iyonix on
pretty much evyerything.
 
Nearly 3 years ago Archive ran tests comparing VRPC and Iyonix.
This was using sensible mid range PC hardware (which was a lot
slower than Intel Core2 stuff). The VirtualRPC won by a narrow
margin - as PCs get faster and faster (and more efficient) the gap
just keeps widening.

>I would therefore need a 10GHz Mac just to  break-even with Iyonixs' 
>speed, let alone surpass  it.

>Comments please?
 
See above - Out of interrest who "told" you that a VPRC would only
be "30%" of the speed?

>What speed (using image processing on  VRPC/SA-VRPC or JPEG-picture 
>viewing on the VRPC/SA0-VRPC do people see  in relation to that of an 
>Iyonix?
 
Depends on the application - in some extreme cases I would
expect 2 x the performance - or perhaps even more.

>What is the  way forward?  An X-scale-Virtual Acorn??
 
Not needed.
 
Aaron