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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1240 comp.os.linux:56293 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!hippo.ru.ac.za!kudu!g89r4222 From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) Subject: Re: FYI.. benchmarks on linux and 386bsd Message-ID: <g89r4222.750667746@kudu> Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za (Usenet News Admin) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa References: <CEMA3n.DuE@rex.uokhsc.edu> <1993Oct9.191335.3202@Belvedere%hip-hop.suvl.ca.us> <1993Oct13.132032.22762@swan.pyr> <CEuF4C.5x9@festival.ed.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 06:49:06 GMT Lines: 16 In <CEuF4C.5x9@festival.ed.ac.uk> richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: >In article <1993Oct13.132032.22762@swan.pyr> iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes: >>This is odd. They use the same coprocessor emulator. >It may well be that most of the time is taken in handling the exceptions, >rather than actually emulating the instructions. Doesn't the original 386bsd use an old version of Linus's math code? Geoff. -- ===========================csgr@alpha.ru.ac.za================================ Geoff Rehmet, Parallel Processing Group, | ____ _ o /\ Computer Science Department, | ___ _-\_<, /\/\/\ Rhodes University, RSA. | (*)/'(*) /\/\/\/\/\