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To: peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger)
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Subject: Re: Questions; Observations 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 08:49:55 -0800
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>Lastly, I get about 10,000 fewer Dhrystones/second on my FreeBSD
>system than on the same machine under NetBSD or BSDI.  While I know
>this is a meaningless number, anyone have any guesses as to why this
>is?

   Are you using the same binary? We use different clock constants and this
requires that it be compiled under FreeBSD in order for the correct divisor to
be used.

-DG