Timothy Murphy wrote:
>I'm running 2.6.4 on my laptop.
>I haven't noticed that it is faster than 2.4.25.
>(Admittedly I'm insensitive to such things.)
>But is there some particular setting that was suggested in .config
>to get this supposed increase in speed?
>I didn't see anything relevant, though I didn't look carefully.
>>Actually, what strikes me most strongly
>is how little difference the CPU speed makes.
>I have a 200MHz Pentium II which my grand-daughter uses
>and on the rare occasions when I use it
>I'm always surprised how useable it is.
>>I suspect CPU speed is just a manufacturer's gimmick
>to persuade people they need a new machine.
>>>yup. Just like graphics cards. No-one really needs a faster machine.
POVray runs at exactly the same speed on a PII-233 as a 2.2G
athlon FX.
And I know the difference between the 5 mins compile time on
a PIII-800 and 1m30 on the P4 2.26 G is just imaginary too.
In a lot of cases, you're correct, if you don't keep upgrading to the latest
greatest, there's no reason to upgrade to the latest greatest
processor/video
card either. But don't expect to run Mozilla on a pentium 233 with 64M
RAM and get good interactive performance.
L.
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