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From: rums@ccrwest.org (Howard Rumsey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
Subject: Re: What do people have against BSD (or Linux for that matter)? (was: Whither NeoSoft)
Date: 02 Feb 1995 03:17:12 GMT
Organization: IDA Center for Communications Research
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In-reply-to: hjb@netcom.com's message of Wed, 1 Feb 1995 00:02:26 GMT
>>>>> "Hwa-Jin" == Hwa-Jin Bae <hjb@netcom.com> writes:
Hwa-Jin> In article <id.AOYG1.3SH@nmti.com>, Peter da Silva
Hwa-Jin> <peter@nmti.com> wrote:
>> 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.
Hwa-Jin> 486 DX2/66 linux 1.1.81
Hwa-Jin> time sh -c "echo '2^8192' | bc > /dev/null" 3.850u 0.130s
Hwa-Jin> 0:03.98 100.0% 0+0k 0+0io 75pf+0w
My $.02:
90 MHz Pentium linux 1.1.57
time sh -c "echo '2^8192' | bc > /dev/null"
1.940u 0.050s 0:02.05 97.0% 0+0k 0+0io 50pf+0w
Howard