[CUBE] PL 1.2 Shipping!

[Laurie A Duncan]

On 2/6/03 10:10 PM, arturo at ethicist.net typeth:

> In a perfect developed multi-threaded app you can expect a multiplier
> of something like 1.8x.  So an 800 would get you a 1.4GHz equivalent.
> 
> In reality, even under OSX, no one codes multi-threaded apps except a
> few games and photoshop.  (Someone needs to keep a catalog of those).
> In this case, the advantage of duals is that you can run 2 seriously
> CPU hogging apps at once.
> 
> Anyone out there with a dual?  Under OSX, in the terminal, do something
> like this (this is all one line, BTW):
> 
> sh -c 'i=0;while [ $i -lt 100 ] ; do i=`expr $i + 1`; echo $i; done' |
> sh -c 'j=0; while read k ; do j=$j$k; done;'
> 
> This uses a process to generate 100 numbers and another reads the
> numbers.  The above should go twice on fast on a dual.

I have a PL dual 800.

Believe it or not, I'm not a unix geek, so the terminal stuff gets lost on
me.  I'm happy to run this, but what should I be looking at for a result
output and what are you comparing it to?

Laurie
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