Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA04979; Wed, 16 Jun 93 09:31:46 EDT Received: from relay2.UU.NET by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA11267; Wed, 16 Jun 93 09:30:53 EDT Received: from spool.uu.net (via LOCALHOST) by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA12714; Wed, 16 Jun 93 09:30:39 -0400 Received: from rayssd.UUCP by spool.uu.net with UUCP/RMAIL (queueing-rmail) id 032516.11783; Wed, 16 Jun 1993 03:25:16 EDT Received: from galaxia by rayssd.ssd.ray.com with UUCP id AA14978 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for sipb@mit.edu); Wed, 16 Jun 1993 01:06:22 -0400 Received: by animato.network23.com (V1.16/Amiga) id AA00cah; Mon, 14 Jun 93 21:44:24 EDT Date: Mon, 14 Jun 93 21:44:24 EDT Message-Id: <9306150144.AA00cag@animato.network23.com> References: X-Newssoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith From: rlcarr@animato.network23.com (Rich Carreiro) To: sipb@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: "I think I know why your source code runs so slow..." (fwd) [They don't call it the _SF Comical_ for nothing.... -- Rich] ORIGINALLY FROM: jeff@ikos.com (Jeffery M. Chan) >From the San Francisco Chronicle: As expected, the Santa Clara-based company yesterday announced initial shipments of Pentiums to... ... For example, Pentium cannot achieve maximum performance unless customers buy new versions of software tuned to take advantage of the chips's design. Intel disclosed yesterday that unmodified programs run about 70 percent faster on Pentium than on the fastest version of Intel's existing 486 chip. When modified, using a process called compilation, many programs run two times faster... -Jeff Chan jeff@ikos.com (*not* ikos@netcom.com) ..!netcom!ikos!jeff -- Selected by Maddi Hausmann. MAIL your joke (jokes ONLY) to funny@clarinet.com. Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. Remember: Only ONE joke per submission. Extra jokes may be rejected. ---------- End of Forwarded Article ---------- -- Rich Carreiro Home: (401)841-8514 rlcarr@animato.network23.com uunet.uu.net!animato!rlcarr