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From: msohnius@novell.co.uk (Martin Sohnius)
Subject: Re: What do people have against BSD (or Linux for that matter)? (was: Whither NeoSoft)
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Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 20:34:57 GMT
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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.
: The test is affected by the multitasking! I run MKS Toolkit under
: DOS -- this looks quite a bit like the "real thing" but single
: tasks only and maintains DOS compatibility.
: (At least it keeps me sane :-)
: 486 DX/33, no other users.
: gls 198. uname -a
: DOS usr 20 6 iAPX486
: gls 199. time sh -c "echo '2^8192' | bc > c:/tmp/null"
:
: real 3.08
: user 1.73
: sys 1.35
: Pretty impressive huh? -- It's just a pity that pigs don't really fly.
One question: does the 'bc' in the MKS Toolkit really do the "inifinite
precision" thing? I have the awful suspicion that it may use simply do
floating point arithmetic. It may, of course, also be better implemented
than the dc(1) on Unix (the real engine behind bc).
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