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From: caj@tower.techwood.org (Craig A. Johnston)
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: 2 Feb 1995 20:18:22 GMT
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References: <3g3s2k$6i@villa.fc.net> <3g8b6m$plu@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <791660505snz@apis.demon.co.uk> <id.7J_G1._DF@nmti.com>
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In article <id.7J_G1._DF@nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote:
>In article <791660505snz@apis.demon.co.uk>,
>Gordon L. Scott <Gordon@apis.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Out of curiosity I ran the same test on my system and it
>> demonstrates very clearly an obvious caveat with all benchmarks.
>
>Yeh, you should run the same software.
>
>> The test is affected by the multitasking!
>
>Um, not really. That's why there's a "user" and "system" time. The "user"
>time should be pretty much independent of other activity on the system,
>so long as you're not thrashing. But I'll bet your BC isn't implemented
>as a preprocessor to DC like the Berkeley one. That's why the Gnu one is
>creaming the Berkeley one, as well.
Yeah, I just grabbed GNU bc 1.03, which no longer compiles to dc input (as
1.02 did.)
I did: time sh -c "echo 2^8192" | bc > /dev/null" on a Linux dx2/66 machine.
1.02: 3.85 user, 3.93 elapsed
1.03: .98 user, 1.06 elapsed.
What have we determined here? That you should get GNU bc 1.03. ;)
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