Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 23:02:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: jdp@polstra.com Cc: tonym@angis.usyd.edu.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Excellent Elf and others Message-ID: <199809020402.XAA03660@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <199809011727.KAA13958@austin.polstra.com> (message from John Polstra on Tue, 01 Sep 1998 10:27:10 -0700) References: <199809011204.WAA01370@morgan.angis.su.OZ.AU> <199809011727.KAA13958@austin.polstra.com>
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>> bytebench did show the following (I dont know if this is from elf >> or something else changed - maybe bytebench should be recompiled as elf. >> Doing this now) > For those of us who don't know anything about bytebench, could you > explain what these numbers mean? What's an "lpm"? > I'm sure that many of us are eager to look intelligent by saying, > "Well, of course, that's obviously to be expected! The clear and > trivial reason is blah blah blah ..." But first, we have to know > whether it's saying that ELF is faster or slower than a.out. ;-) Not to mention, I'd also be keen to know a little bit about the testing methodology used. IIRC, bytebench is designed to be as portable as possible, which means that may be wall time instead of process time used. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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