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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1225 comp.os.linux:56199 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!festival!castle.ed.ac.uk!richard From: richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: FYI.. benchmarks on linux and 386bsd References: <CEMA3n.DuE@rex.uokhsc.edu> <1993Oct9.191335.3202@Belvedere%hip-hop.suvl.ca.us> <1993Oct13.132032.22762@swan.pyr> Message-ID: <CEuF4C.5x9@festival.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@festival.ed.ac.uk (remote news read deamon) Organization: University of Edinburgh Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1993 16:00:11 GMT Lines: 12 In article <1993Oct13.132032.22762@swan.pyr> iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes: >This is odd. They use the same coprocessor emulator. It may well be that most of the time is taken in handling the exceptions, rather than actually emulating the instructions. -- Richard -- "For thousands of years, [homoeopathic magic] was known to the sorcerors of ancient India, Babylon and Egypt, as well as of Greece and Rome, and at this day it is still resorted to by cunning and malignant savages in Australia, Africa and Scotland." - J G Frazer, The Golden Bough