·······@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Robert Evans) writes:
>I am in the process of upgrading some Sun workstations whose primary
>purpose is to run Lisp applications. I have heard some rumors that
>the 1MB cache found on the newer Sparc10's has actually slowed down
>performance in the LISP environment due to the excessive memory size
>and cache misses found in the LISP world.
>Does anyone have any experience and/or performance data in this area.
>Specifcally, does a Sparc 10/41 run lisp better or worse than a Sparc
>10/40?
I have tested a SPARC 10/30 and a 10/41 under akcl. The 10/41 was
about 15-20% faster in every test (Some of them uses data sets of
several MB).
Actually, I bougth none of them, because even the 10/41 was not more
than twice as fast as my SPARC 2. I'll put a Weitek-80-MHz-CPU in it
(I assume 50% performance gain) and stick with the SPARC 2.
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