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* Re: [9fans] Performance
@ 2001-05-08 21:25 jmk
  2001-05-08 21:30 ` Re[2]: " Matt H
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: jmk @ 2001-05-08 21:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

On Tue May  8 14:46:27 EDT 2001, schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu wrote:
> lmbench would be interesting to run once in a while.  The overheads
> introduced by APE might be problematic, though.

it's just not worth the trouble. last time i looked it was so unix-centric
the results would be meaningless. how many line of code does it take to
determine the clock-rate of the cpu, doesn't the firmware print it out when
the machine boots?


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* Re[2]: [9fans] Performance
  2001-05-08 21:25 [9fans] Performance jmk
@ 2001-05-08 21:30 ` Matt H
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Matt H @ 2001-05-08 21:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com

Hello jmk,

Tuesday, May 08, 2001, 10:25:18 PM, you wrote:

jpblc> On Tue May  8 14:46:27 EDT 2001, schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu wrote:
>> lmbench would be interesting to run once in a while.  The overheads
>> introduced by APE might be problematic, though.

jpblc> it's just not worth the trouble. last time i looked it was so unix-centric
jpblc> the results would be meaningless. how many line of code does it take to
jpblc> determine the clock-rate of the cpu, doesn't the firmware print it out when
jpblc> the machine boots?

they're not called Bogomips for nothing

-- 
Best regards,
 Matt                            mailto:matt@proweb.co.uk




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