[Virtualacorn-list] VirtualRPC Speed Comparisons...

[Tim Powys-Lybbe]

In message of 8 Oct, ATimbrell at aol.com wrote:

> Having seen a few posting on here about the  speed of VirtualRPC
> on the Mac (mainly with regard to loading a 72Mb bitmap)  I want
> to investigate why the VRPC for the Mac doesn't seem to  be
> performing as it should  
> 
> The first thing I would like to check is the BogoMips result.
>  
> A copy of !Desk_Bogo can be found in:
>  
> HostFS::HardDisc4.$.Utilities.Speedtests
>  
> If possible I would like to see the results from both PC and
> Macs to get some comparisons.
>  
> In order to run the test:
>  
> Firstly quit any non ROM based apps that are running.
> (You can leave !Printers, !Alarm!, !Draw, !Edit etc)
> Load the !Desk_Bogo application.
> Click on the "Start" button to run the test.
>  
> In order to average out the values can the !Desk_Bogo app
> be run three times and the result posted as per this example:
>  
> OS :  Windows XP
> Processor : Core2Duo 2.13Ghz
> BogoMips :405

OS:        Mac OS 10.5.5
Processor: 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon
BogoMips:  475.10

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Tim Powys-Lybbe                                          tim at powys.org
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