On 8/11/07, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi guys, > > my boss has borrowed me his IBM T40p. I know there are a couple of you who > own such a machine. What might be special about it?!? The Haiku app_server > feels like it is running about 10 times as fast as on my other, much faster > computer which has an ATI graphics board as well. I know this is the > chipset (M6) that the radeon driver has been originally written for, IIRC, > but I doubt this is the reason. Is it using RAM for graphics memory? Is > there something special about the first generation centrino CPUs that makes > Haiku's scheduler like them? What is it? The difference is like night and > day! SpeedStep effects messing with timers and timeouts? Different memory controller, PCIe vs AGP, different bus speeds, larger CPU cache?...