On October 5, 2005 20:26, Dean_Swan at Mitel.COM wrote:
> >I'm using an IBM R40 (Pentium M 1.4Ghz) with Debian and Squeak. Squeak
> >
> >For what its worth,
> >
> >0 tinyBenchmarks ->
> >  '232304900 bytecodes/sec; 7018937 sends/sec'
> >   '225352112 bytecodes/sec; 7028070 sends/sec'
> >  '230838593 bytecodes/sec; 6830576 sends/sec'
> >
> >(hmm, that seems almost twice as fast at bytecodes/sec as the Dell
> >reported, interesting)
>
> That is interesting.  It is also interesting that the sends/sec are almost
> the same
> as the 3.0 GHz P4.
>
>  Can anybody explain these differences?  Could Linux vs. XP have anything
> to do with it?

Apart from there may be some difference between the Linux vs. XP VM,  this is 
likely because Pentium 4 and Pentium M are comppletely different 
architectures, Pentium 4's IPC is uselessly low. In the article linked below, 
the benchmark shows that P4 3.2Ghz (Prescott, 3200/133) is roughly equivalent 
to Pentium-M 1.8 Ghz (Pentium-M 735 Dothan, 1800/100).

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050525/pentium4-10.html

(there are more benchmarks in the other chapters)
Milan
>
>         -Dean