Macbook pro versus Raspberry Pi

[Alan Clifford]

Just installed the latest exiftool on both.  The times taken for make test were:

All tests successful.
Files=77, Tests=419, 21 wallclock secs ( 0.27 usr  0.14 sys + 18.63 cusr  1.06 csys = 20.10 CPU)
Result: PASS


All tests successful.
Files=77, Tests=419, 813 wallclock secs ( 4.31 usr  0.65 sys + 613.86 cusr 10.18 csys = 629.00 CPU)
Result: PASS


But, given the difference in price between the two, I shouldn't complain.

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Alan,

Yeah.  800 secs is a bit slow.  Anything quicker than 100 secs is fast.  Your powerbook blazes.  For your interest, here are a few other times:

21 secs - this iMac (2012)
45 secs - our Linux server here
59 secs - Mac Mini (2006)
266 secs - 550 MHz PowerBook G4 (2001)

I don't have my iPod Touch here now or I could test it too, but I think it would probably come in around 400 seconds or so.  The fastest I have seen is 15 secs on an AMD64 Linux machine.

- Phil

Edit:  I just tested my iPod Touch, and I was giving it far too much credit.  It runs the tests in 1846 secs -- less than half the speed of your Raspberry Pi.  Looking up the specs I see that my iPod has a 400 MHz ARM processor, but the Pi has a 700 MHz ARM processor, so it makes sense that the Pi is faster.