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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:16041 comp.unix.advocacy:4151 comp.sys.sun.misc:17346 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8087 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!nbn!miwok!myrddin.imat.com!seahunt.imat.com!nelson From: nelson@seahunt.imat.com (Michael Nelson) 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) Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Date: 4 Feb 1995 03:03:34 GMT Organization: Imagine That Lines: 48 Message-ID: <3guqq6$6rd@myrddin.imat.com> References: <3g3s2k$6i@villa.fc.net> <3g9eev$egq@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3gc00m$cld@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <id.AOYG1.3SH@nmti.com> <hjbD3Ao42.Mr0@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: seahunt.imat.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hwa-Jin Bae (hjb@netcom.com) wrote: -> In article <id.AOYG1.3SH@nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote: -> >In article <3gc00m$cld@nntp1.u.washington.edu>, -> >Craig A. Johnston <caj@tower.techwood.org> wrote: -> >> That's probably called GCC vs. standard, non-optimized Sun cc, you -> >> dolt. Hope this helps. Try a head-to-head 'echo 2^8192 | bc' for -> >> some kicks. For the record, my '66 does it in 4.1 sec. -> > -> >Friendly local SS-10, no other users. -> >% uname -a -> >SunOS wssql01 4.1.3 1 sun4m -> >% /bin/time sh -c "echo '2^8192' | bc > /dev/null" -> > 8.2 real 7.8 user 0.0 sys -> > -> >486 DX2/66, no other users. -> >% uname -a -> >FreeBSD bonkers.taronga.com 1.1.5.1(RELEASE) BONKERS#21 i386 -> >% /usr/bin/time sh -c "echo '2^8192' | bc > /dev/null" -> > 4.71 real 3.88 user 0.15 sys -> > -> >Alpha OSF/1 (DEC 4000/710), heavily loaded: -> >% uname -a -> >OSF1 sonic.nmti.com V3.0 347 alpha -> >% /bin/time sh -c "echo '2^8192' | bc > /dev/null" -> > -> >real 3.8 -> >user 1.6 -> >sys 0.1 -> > -> >If performance matters that much, give DEC a call. -> 486 DX2/66 linux 1.1.81 -> time sh -c "echo '2^8192' | bc > /dev/null" -> 3.850u 0.130s 0:03.98 100.0% 0+0k 0+0io 75pf+0w Pentium 66 Linux 1.1.64 (while running inn with a moderate sized newsfeed, a www server, and three majordomo mailing lists) [nelson@myrddin]:~ $ time sh -c "echo '2^8192' | bc > /dev/null" 2.62user 0.07system 0:02.80elapsed 96%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps -- Michael Nelson nelson@seahunt.imat.com San Francisco, CA http://www.imat.com/consult.html VOICE: 1-415-621-2608