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From: sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com (Thomas David Rivers)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 now benchmarks much slower...
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 12:39:34 GMT
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In article <MARK.1055.2E347ECA@ardsley.business.uwo.ca> MARK@ardsley.business.uwo.ca (Mark_Bramwell) writes:
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>The dhrystone benchmark is showing 1/2 the speed of what it was last week.
 [in FreeBSD 1.1.5.1].
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>The machine is a p5-66.  Should I recompile with some special switch to 
>activate the math chip support instead of the emulation lib or is it auto 
>sensing?
>

 The dhrystone benchmark does not exercise floating point (there is a
whetstone, and other benchmarks for that.)  

 However, older versions of the dhrystone are quite dependent on the
speed of strcmp()... newer versions aren't.

 Which version are you using?

	- Dave Rivers -
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