I've been using a Pentium 133 for the last year or so, which is just a
little too slow for the kind of things I've been attempting with Csound.

I've been looking at published benchmarks in the magazines, and reading
between the lines it looks very much as if the vastly more expensive
Pentium Pro 200 is less than twice as fast for floating point work. While
obviously an improvement, I'm not convinced it's worth the extra outlay at
this stage.

Meanwhile, the new Klamath chips aren't going to be much faster. They run
at 233MHz, but the off-chip cache slows things down making the performance
roughly similar to the existing PPro200. 

So - does anyone out there use a Pentium Pro, of any flavour? How does it
compare to a Pentium for Csound work in the real world, away from Intel hype? 

Also - is it possible to optimise Csound for MMX?  

All observations gratefully received.

Thanks,

R.