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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:16023 comp.unix.advocacy:4110 comp.sys.sun.misc:17319 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8074 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!epflnews!dinews.epfl.ch!dinews.epfl.ch!simon From: simon@lig.di.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen) 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: 02 Feb 1995 11:36:38 GMT Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Lines: 21 Message-ID: <SIMON.95Feb2123638@ligsg10.epfl.ch> References: <3g3s2k$6i@villa.fc.net> <3g8b6m$plu@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3g9eev$egq@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3gc00m$cld@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <id.AOYG1.3SH@nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ligsg10.epfl.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: peter@nmti.com's message of Tue, 31 Jan 1995 23:46:47 GMT BCC: simon Systems whose `bc' command happens to be GNU bc will beat others hands down. The processor or system speed hardly matters. Here are my times on a low-end Indy (R4600PC): That's "classic" bc: simon@sasg2[simon]$ /bin/time sh -c "echo '2^8192' | /usr/bin/bc > /dev/null" real 4.23 user 4.07 sys 0.06 And this is GNU bc: simon@sasg2[simon]$ /bin/time sh -c "echo '2^8192' | bc > /dev/null" real 0.62 user 0.56 sys 0.05 -- Simon.