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From: danh@qnx.com (Dan Hildebrand)
Subject: bc benchmarking (QNX results)
Message-ID: <rdt_#c#=@qnx.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 95 18:50:56 GMT
Organization: QNX Software Systems
References: <3g3s2k$6i@villa.fc.net> <3gc00m$cld@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <id.AOYG1.3SH@nmti.com> <3gonh7$6rj@zion.ltw.org>
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In article <3gonh7$6rj@zion.ltw.org>, Warren Lavallee <warren@ltw.org> wrote:
>>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
>
>Sun4/50
> 3.2 real 1.9 user 0.2 sys
>
>Hp9000/735
>real 5.2
>user 4.9
>sys 0.0
>
>RS/6000 with PowerPC Chip
>real 2.5
>user 2.2
>sys 0.0
>
>Seems like my nifty SPARC is as fast as a PowerPC!
>This seems like a useless benchmark.
On a 486/66 running QNX 4.22 with /usr/gnu/bc compiled with Watcom C v9.52:
01.770s real 01.070s user 00.020s system
Agreed, this benchmark probably isn't a good basis for comparison.
--
Dan Hildebrand danh@qnx.com QNX Software Systems, Ltd.
phone: (613) 591-0931 x204 (voice) 175 Terence Matthews
(613) 591-3579 (fax) Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2M 1W8