quote]OS4 on X86, over my dead body! But you you are entitled to your opinion. As you said, more people think like you but there are also a lot that adore PPC. Like me. And so what if I have to pay a bit more for PPC hardware. [/quote]
You know, adoration doesn't back up an opinion much. Objectivity, however, does that a lot more. While waiting to be more objective on the tricky subject of cross-processor benchmarking, you can becomes at least try to be more enlightened with the material that has been produced so far
http://homepage.mac.com/nopea1/benchmark/Benchmarks using cross-compilation tasks. The cross-gcc benchmark shows a build of Sparc objects using GCC on Linux for two PPC machines and two X86 machines. The task is heavily integer based and PPC suffered a whooping.
http://www.lowendmac.com/myturn/01/0910.htmlAttempts to explain how benchmarking between the two processors may end up hurting Apple. Be carefully of the benchmarking EXAMPLE he has provided. The values were based on "personal experience". *rolls eyes, slaps forehead!!*
http://arstechnica.com/cpu/01q2/p4andg4e/p4andg4e-1.htmlThe Pentium 4 and the G4e: an Architectural Comparison
Happy reading.
Oh yeah, and PPC SUCKS! :-P
