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A comment on Ask HN: Why are older processors slower at the same frequency?.

Re:Ask HN: Why are older processors slower at the same frequ... by DamonHD on Saturday September 24, 2022 @02:16PM (#32965234)
Clock frequency and cores were never really enough. When I benchmarked hardware for <ABigBank> years ago, the OS made quite a bit of difference as well. Eg WinNT was maybe ~2x slower for I/O for a given MHz of CPU than SunOS or Linux, IIRC.
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