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From: Matt H <matt@proweb.co.uk>
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To: "jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re[2]: [9fans] Performance
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Date: Tue,  8 May 2001 22:30:01 +0100
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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

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