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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: What do people have against BSD (or Linux for that matter)? (was: Whither NeoSoft)
Message-ID: <id.AOYG1.3SH@nmti.com>
Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva)
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
References: <3g3s2k$6i@villa.fc.net> <3g8b6m$plu@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3g9eev$egq@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3gc00m$cld@nntp1.u.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 23:46:47 GMT
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In article <3gc00m$cld@nntp1.u.washington.edu>,
Craig A. Johnston <caj@tower.techwood.org> wrote:
> That's probably called GCC vs. standard, non-optimized Sun cc, you
> dolt.  Hope this helps.  Try a head-to-head 'echo 2^8192 | bc' for
> some kicks.  For the record, my '66 does it in 4.1 sec.

Friendly local SS-10, no other users.
% uname -a
SunOS wssql01 4.1.3 1 sun4m
% /bin/time sh -c "echo '2^8192' | bc > /dev/null"
	8.2 real         7.8 user         0.0 sys  

486 DX2/66, no other users.
% uname -a
FreeBSD bonkers.taronga.com 1.1.5.1(RELEASE) BONKERS#21 i386
% /usr/bin/time sh -c "echo '2^8192' | bc > /dev/null"
	4.71 real         3.88 user         0.15 sys

Alpha OSF/1 (DEC 4000/710), heavily loaded:
% uname -a
OSF1 sonic.nmti.com V3.0 347 alpha
% /bin/time sh -c "echo '2^8192' | bc > /dev/null"

real   3.8
user   1.6
sys    0.1

If performance matters that much, give DEC a call.
-- 
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