Robin wrote:
>The latest DEC Alphas would be very significantly faster than 
>the PPro, depending on their cache and clock rate.

The other day, someone from MPEG Audio land logged into
a 4 processor SMP Alpha machine we have on the Internet (
for testing purposes - it is NOT available to the general public),
to try an MPEG encode. Apparently the encode ran so
quickly that the engineer thought something was wrong
with the software. But no, it was working. I have not
verified these numbers myself, but my colleague informs
me that an encode of a circa 3 minute piece of music
finished in about 10 seconds. On my DX4-100, it would take
17 x 3  = 51 minutes. :) :)  Apparently the software was making
use of all 4 processors, by the way.

Greg.
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