hooft@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft) (11/26/90)
Did anyone ever run some real applications on a i860? I have the option to buy one to put into an AT as a compute-server, but I don't know what to expect for real applications. -- Rob Hooft, Chemistry department University of Utrecht. hooft@hutruu54.bitnet hooft@chem.ruu.nl hooft@fys.ruu.nl
donc@microsoft.UUCP (Don CORBITT) (12/05/90)
In article <1793@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl> hooft@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft) writes: >Did anyone ever run some real applications on a i860? I have the option to buy >one to put into an AT as a compute-server, but I don't know what to expect >for real applications. >-- >Rob Hooft, Chemistry department University of Utrecht. >hooft@hutruu54.bitnet hooft@chem.ruu.nl hooft@fys.ruu.nl In a previous life(tm), I helped port a 3D modeling and rendering system from DOS (16 bit code) to the Truevision i860 board. Using the early compilers (and who doesn't?), I saw 6-8x performance improvement over a 386/20MHz. We _didn't_ enable any compiler optimizations, so this could probably be called a lower bound to performance improvement. I haven't heard what happened to performance with the new compilers. PS - I'm currently doing some MS level projects on the i860, including a simple simulator. (Yes, I'm re-inventing the wheel.) -- Don Corbitt, donc@microsoft.uucp, not a spokesmodel for MSC Mail flames, post retractions. Support short signatures, 3 lines max.