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On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Karl Hiramoto<karl@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> See the benchmarks a core 2 duo is many times faster than a atom: |
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> http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-atom-efficiency,2069-8.html |
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These benchmarks are for the Atom N230, as opposed to the dual-core |
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Atom N330, so not really a valid comparison. Clearly, any dual-core |
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chip will always outperform a comparable single-core chip. |
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For me, there's a some likelihood that even an Atom N230 will still |
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outperform the Pentium-M that I have in my laptop at the moment, so |
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for me, anything would really be an improvement. Having a dual-core |
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Atom for a build machine would mean 4 concurrent threads instead of 2. |
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I guess I should really just ask ... |
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Has anyone recently upgraded their Gentoo machine from a single-core |
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to a dual-core processor, and if so, was there a clearly noticeable |
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increase in build speed ? |
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