From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Performance
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Date: Tue,  8 May 2001 17:25:18 -0400
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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?