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Allegro on Linux - performance enhanced?

mbecker

Does Allegro run appreciably faster under Linux?

Can it be configured to?

Thanks!

  • oldmouldy

    I have a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 64-bit box based on a 2.4GHz Intel Core Duo and a Windows Vista 64-bit based on a 3GHz Intel Core Duo and I would say that the Linux box seems quite a bit faster in "normal" use, though I don't have objective measurements to confirm or deny this. Running RHEL 4 64-bit, the performance was pretty comparable but RHEL 5 64-bit seems faster again. I don't know about configuring, both of the machines are in a pretty "default" configuration. The Windows box does run AV software which might be to its disadvantage.

  • Khurana
    In our experiment, we found SPB tools to be processor speed centric versus being RAM centric i.e. greater the processor speed, the faster the tool.  That said, we didn't notice any fastness on RHEL v4 vis a vis WinXP Pro.  Allegro PCB is not like Specctra or Allegro SI which read/writes to/from memory.
  • pcbgeorge
    I ran a benchmark a while ago, with RHEL4 on a Dell Optiplex GX270 (single P4 2.8Ghz processor, 512K memory) and WimXP SP2 on a Dell Precision 650 (dual Xeon 2.66Ghz, 2 GB memory).  Linux "out of the box" with no tweaking on the middle-of-the-road PC was roughly 3-4x faster on a standard benchmark than a higher-end workstation running WinXP.
     
    I ran the benchmark on a virtual machine running Vista and a virtual machine running XP.  XP was roughly 2-3x as fast as Vista.  This was on virtual machines, and no tweaking was done to either OS.
     
    Your mileage may vary :)
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