[rescue] ooh, pretty

[Mike Meredith]

On Tuesday 19 November 2002 9:45 pm, James Lockwood wrote:
> A 75MHz R8k I2 should not be faster than any dual R10k Octane unless
> there is considerable disparity between other portions of the

Or it happened to be faster for a specialised application (as in the 
case I mentioned), which could have been for any of a number of reasons 
... perhaps some of the libraries with IRIX 6.4 weren't as well 
optimised for the R10K as they could have been.

> systems.  The Octane has greatly improved bus technology and even a
> relatively slow R10k in an Octane will outperform the R8k.

Of course!