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Subject: Re: FYI.. benchmarks on linux and 386bsd
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From: miguel@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es (Miguel Alvarez Blanco)
Date: 7 Oct 93 19:12:09 +0100
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Chris Metcalf (metcalf@CATFISH.LCS.MIT.EDU) wrote:
: Linux (which defines only CLK_TCK, not HZ, in its include files)
Look at /usr/include/sys/<I don't remember>.h, it has both of them defined!
(at least in my Slackware distribution).
: A quick check of MIPS Ultrix 4.3, SunOS 4.1.3, NextStep 2.1 and Vax BSD 4.3
: reveals that all of them use HZ=60 when returning a value via times(),
: by the way; my guess at HZ in BSD was based on Vax BSD.
BTW, our old Convex has the HZ set to 60, too.
Oh, and another thing. Do you remember five months ago, a student's question
here in Spain as to what has one to do when nobody gives him money to buy
a C-90? I've found it, my 486DX2-66 PC with Linux has beaten (running our
application in quantum chemistry) things like that Convex 120, this HP-9000,
all of our VaxStations, some Sparcs (I don't remember the model), and watch
this! even the Cray YMP at CIEMAT in Madrid ! and I bought it for something
like 2000$
Miguel Alvarez Blanco "All that is gold does not glitter,
miguel@hobbit.quimica.uniovi.es not all those who wander are lost."
miguel@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es Bilbo Baggins.