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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!panix!not-for-mail From: jprad@panix.com (jack radigan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Linux vs. BSD?! Date: 21 Feb 1995 22:55:26 -0500 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3iecje$lj8@panix.com> References: <3i7ar8$ahv@marton.hsr.no> <3i83js$avl@ivory.lm.com> <3iaaai$72u@agate.berkeley.edu> <3iab0s$hjl@ivory.lm.com> <3iaf2f$95t@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com In <3iaf2f$95t@agate.berkeley.edu> jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >If you want to know how to do this properly, talk to Bruce EVans >(bde@freebsd.org) - he'll show you that Dhrystone benchmarking isn't >something for the armchair performance evaluator to just jump on >and take the values generated from a straight compile and run. >In order for your numbers to be actually *meaningful* (as opposed to >just lining up on cool columns and making marketing people go "Ooh!") >you need to compare a number of other system constants and/or returned >values FIRST. All well and good,. But, when you compile package X and it runs faster on system Y then Z, well... ;-) -jack-