From: Dominik Westner <westner@logicunited.com> Subject: Re: Ubench on Mac OS X / G4 Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 23:08:43 +0200 Here are my results for an Apple Powerbook G4 667MHz / 512MB : Mach kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 5.4: Wed Apr 10 09:27:47 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-201.19.3.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Kernel configured for up to 2 processors. 1 processor is physically available. Processor type: ppc7450 (PowerPC 7450) Processor active: 0 Primary memory available: 512.00 megabytes. With the lame non optimized default settings: [icebox:~/Sources/ubench-0.32] westner% ./ubench Unix Benchmark Utility v.0.3 Copyright (C) July, 1999 PhysTech, Inc. Author: Sergei Viznyuk <sv@phystech.com> http://www.phystech.com/download/ubench.html Darwin 5.4 Darwin Kernel Version 5.4: Wed Apr 10 09:27:47 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-201.19.3.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh Ubench CPU: 26532 Ubench MEM: 12542 -------------------- Ubench AVG: 19537 With gcc 3.1 and Apple recommened optimizations: CFLAGS = -O3 -faltivec -mcpu=7450 -mdynamic-no-pic -funroll-loops -ffast-math -fstrict-aliasing [icebox:~/Sources/ubench-0.32] westner% ./ubench Unix Benchmark Utility v.0.3 Copyright (C) July, 1999 PhysTech, Inc. Author: Sergei Viznyuk <sv@phystech.com> http://www.phystech.com/download/ubench.html Darwin 5.4 Darwin Kernel Version 5.4: Wed Apr 10 09:27:47 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-201.19.3.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh Ubench CPU: 35600 Ubench MEM: 33014 -------------------- Ubench AVG: 34307 And on a Dual 450MHz PowerMac G4 640MB CFLAGS = -O3 -faltivec -mcpu=7400 -mdynamic-no-pic -funroll-loops -ffast-math -fstrict-aliasing [letsbuyit:~/Sources] westner% hostinfo Mach kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 5.4: Wed Apr 10 09:27:47 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-201.19.3.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Kernel configured for up to 2 processors. 2 processors are physically available. Processor type: ppc7400 (PowerPC 7400) Processors active: 0 1 Primary memory available: 640.00 megabytes. [letsbuyit:~/Sources/ubench-0.32] westner% ./ubench Unix Benchmark Utility v.0.3 Copyright (C) July, 1999 PhysTech, Inc. Author: Sergei Viznyuk <sv@phystech.com> http://www.phystech.com/download/ubench.html Darwin 5.4 Darwin Kernel Version 5.4: Wed Apr 10 09:27:47 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-201.19.3.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh Ubench CPU: 57192 Ubench MEM: 84687 -------------------- Ubench AVG: 70939 I actually wanted to try an altivec optimized version of ubench, but the calculations seemed a little obscure on first sight ;-) My guess is that one could easily get above 100. Greetings Dominik