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From: Gordon@apis.demon.co.uk ("Gordon L. Scott")
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Subject: Re: What do people have against BSD (or Linux for that matter)? (was: Whither NeoSoft)
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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 18:06:57 +0000
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In article <id.7J_G1._DF@nmti.com> peter@nmti.com "Peter da Silva" writes:
> 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.
That would certainly make the test more convincing, however a
large part of the thread is comparing BSD/Linux/ etc.
> > 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.
Agreed, however I get modestly varying results on my (sadly)
single tasker and the degree of thrashing-or-not can be
significant, particularly for a server. How well do the R/U/T
times compare between implementations? (Rhetorical -- just
reiterating the caveat)
> 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.
Never investigated that but I surely wouldn't bet *against* you on
it :-)
Regards,
--
Gordon Scott Gordon@apis.demon.co.uk Compuserve 100332,3310
Basingstoke Beekeeper Beekeeper@apis.demon.co.uk