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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:16049 comp.unix.advocacy:4196 comp.sys.sun.misc:17358 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8095 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!crl12.crl.com!not-for-mail From: kaila@crl.com (Christine Maxwell) 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: 4 Feb 1995 14:18:17 -0800 Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Lines: 67 Message-ID: <3h0uf9$40o@crl12.crl.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> <3guqq6$6rd@myrddin.imat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl12.crl.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Michael Nelson (nelson@seahunt.imat.com) wrote: : Hwa-Jin Bae (hjb@netcom.com) wrote: : -> In article <id.AOYG1.3SH@nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote: : -> >In article <3gc00m$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 I know i'm going to get flamed for this, but I tried it and died laughing.. so here it is... 386/33 running Coherent 4.2.10 (while modeming to this net provider) /bin/time sh -c echo 2^8192 |bc >/dev/null REAL : 0.1 USER : 0.0 SYS : 0.1 too bad TMWC went out of business, This would have been outrageous on a faster machine ;) Christine