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Ran across this web page <with a date of August 2000> that does some limited comparisons of the triangles per second and fill rate performance of an IR equipped Onyx(1) and several period PCs with commodity graphics cards running linux. While the author acknowledges the tests weren't meant to be anything other than a superficial comparison <"The exact numbers given by tenmillion are almost as meaningless as a CPU's MIPS rating, but they do give some idea of the relative performance of the different systems, and are also good for seeing the effect of different options (triangle size, texturing, lighting, etc).>, I found it interesting.

http://www.evl.uic.edu/pape/CAVE/linux/speed/

A few more semi-related pages by the same author: http://www.evl.uic.edu/pape/CAVE/

I mentioned a similar comparison by the same author in this nekochan thread: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=15636&

If you haven't already, be sure to check out the links to running Quake2 in an SGI Cave system: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=15636&p=122514&#p122514

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Interesting articles, thanks for sharing

Nice numbers for old SGI's.
O2 was only 180MHz R5k and it catch modern graphics with mutch faster processors.

Just one think - can someone compile tenmilion test? I'd like to run it on my O2 witch is on the other side of speed spectrum to see difference. Thanks

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Not to mention that it looks like some if not most of the IRISes were memory-starved (96MB for IRIX 6.5? 256 is better...)

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The original source code to tenmillion.c is here:

http://www.oss.sgi.com/projects/performer/mail/info-performer/perf-96-11/0181.html

I got it to compile and run on my Linux box by changing the call to gettimeofday() to include a timezone struct and by changing the return type of main() to int. I'll try it on my SGI as soon as I get some caffeine into my system tomorrow morning...

If anyone's interested, to compile it (on Linux) I used:

gcc -Wall -L/usr/X11/lib -lGL -lGLU tenmillion.c -o tenmillion.c.exe

The -Wall switch is optional, but interesting. I always use it when I compile other people's code...

Compiled with

".c.exe". Haha. Have you been programming in windows for too long? -o tenmillion would have been fine, and probably wouldn't have caused me to have a morning chuckle.

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Stuff.

Yeah, I'm a Visual C++ goit from way back. But that doesn't alter the fact that consistent filename extensions are a good idea. I've always wondered Unix uses them for it's shared objects but not executables. Just to be different from Microsoft? I find it a tremendous convenience, for example if I want a list of all the programs I've compiled in $HOME all I have to do is `find ~ -name \*exe` ...

There is no excuse for putting .exe at the end of UNIX executable names

Oh right! I suppose next you're going to be telling me I shouldn't be renaming all my .so's to dll's...

I'd prefer find ~ -perm -1

This will also return directories and other files which happen to have the executable bit set (e.g. shared libraries, scripts, ...).

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Output from my work machine (dual core Athlon X2 5600 + Nvidia Quadro 3450):

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