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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sztaki!news From: pink@fsz.bme.hu (Szabolcs Szigeti (PinkPanther)) Subject: Re: FYI.. benchmarks on linux and 386bsd Message-ID: <CF8v9J.2F3@sztaki.hu> Sender: news@sztaki.hu (News system) Reply-To: pink@fsz.bme.hu Organization: Department of Process Control, Technical University of Budapest, HUNGARY References: <2a4kld$qm@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1993 11:15:19 GMT Lines: 35 In article qm@pdq.coe.montana.edu, nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >In article <2a4cfg$5l@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, >Jaye Mathisen <osyjm@cs.montana.edu> wrote: >>In article <29j7ru$bfs@klaava.helsinki.fi>, >>Linus Torvalds <torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wrote: >>>I assume the 386BSD crowd are still using my original emulator due to >>>copyright reasons (I waived the GPL for that one, and made it "freely >>>available for the 386bsd project" or whatever). It's much slower, and ^^^^^^^ Before blaming everything on the emulator, it should be noted that it's not just the emulator that is slow, but libm is not really optimized for the i386. So after getting a good emul, libm should be rewritten. This has to be done soner or later even if one has an FPU. >>I think *BSD got permission from Bill to use his newest one, but Nate wimped >>out on merging it. > >Yeah, 'wimped out'. :-) > >It was a bit more difficult than just adding to the tree, I'll tell you what. > > >Nate > >-- >nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, >nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's >work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to >home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me --- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |You are not expected to understand this | Szabolcs Szigeti | | -- Ken Thompson in swtch() -- | Internet: pink@fsz.bme.hu | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=