Sys701 71 Speeds

From: mem@jhufos.pha.jhu.edu (Mel Martinez x8378) Subject: [*]sys70_vs_71_speed.txt Date: Fri, 27 Nov 92 18:15:59 EST report/sys71_vs_70_speed.txt This submission is a compilation report on the speed of the Mac OS System version 7.1 versus System version 7.0.1 on various Mac models. The motivation for this report was the many rumours going around about a performance decline in SANE performance on some machines. Since changes in performance of the System has a direct effect on users' productivity, I thought it would be useful to compile actual tests so that people could refer to actual facts when making the decision on whether to upgrade to Sys7.1 or not. The tests used are the suite of benchmarks performed by the program info-mac/util/speedometer_31.hqx. These benchmarks are only valid for comparison purposes between mac models and should not be used to compare to other platforms. Also, when looking at ANY benchmarks, you should always keep in mind that no single benchmark ever tells the whole story. If you do not understand the meaning of a particular benchmark in the following listings, I strongly urge you to download Speedometer and read the screens presented in the on-line help feature. The machines tested here represent only a small subset of the growing family of mac models. Still, a fairly good cross-section of machines are represented: The Mac LC, Mac IIci, PowerBook 170 & Quadra 700. I would love to have included more machines, but these are the only reports that have been submitted to me so far. As I am about to leave town on research for a few weeks, I can not wait for more & thought I would go ahead and submit these. Short summary of results: The details vary from machine to machine, but the bottom line seems to be that there is not a tremendous amount of performance difference between the two system versions. Sys 7.1 IS about 10% faster at quickdraw graphics on the Quadra, but in all other tests the differences are small, with a few exceptions here and there. See individual results for details. I would like to thank Murph Sewall, K. David Hawksworth & Daniel Schwalbe for their help in assembling this report. This report replaces info-mac/report/sys-70-71-speeds.txt. Mel Martinez The Johns Hopkins University Dept. of Physics mem@jhufos.pha.jhu.edu *************************************************************************** Quadra 700 tests *************************************************************************** Tests performed by : Mel Martinez mem@jhufos.pha.jhu.edu I performed 4 different tests with the Quadra 700: Sys 7.0.1 w/Extentions ON, Sys 7.0.1 w/Extentions OFF, Sys 7.1 w/Extentions ON and Sys 7.1 w/Extentions OFF. I found very little performance difference except for quickdraw. In other tests, sys7.1 was *slightly* faster than 7.0.1, but not tremendously. ===========Sys 7.0 + Extentions OFF======= Speedometer Report for mem. Prepared November 5, 1992. Machine Record Version…