From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 02:52:33 -0500
From: David Hogan dhog@plan9.cs.su.oz.au
Subject: Senseless benchmarks
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> > I just did that on an SS-1000 running SunOS 5.2, and it took 17.3 seconds.
> 
> Make sure you statically link it.  Otherwise you pay for all sorts
> of shared library overhead.

I just tried it, and it runs twice as fast (around 8 seconds) if I
statically link.  Plan 9 on a lowly sparc ELC runs the test in about
4 secs -- twice as fast again!

I heard some rumor about fork on Solaris taking 1/10th of a second
around the time that we got the SS-1000s, but perhaps this was
fixed in a later release of Solaris.