From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Performance
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Date: Tue,  8 May 2001 17:33:32 -0400
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> 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?

On the other hand, lmbench might be more suited to 
Plan 9 than to Unix.  At least on Plan 9 you can
be more certain that you're measuring something real,
as opposed to code that gcc has optimized into the
empty instruction sequence.

</lmbench flame>

Russ