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- From: fortony@sonne.cso.uiuc.edu
- Subject: performance under linux
- Message-ID: <fortony.711870846@murphy>
- Originator: fortony@murphy
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 05:54:06 GMT
- Keywords: subjective use of objective criteria
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- I was bored and running out of things to download, so I downloaded
- the source to dhrystone 1.1 and ran it under Linux and a sun3/60.
- The sun3/60 was a standard sun3/60, and my machine is a 386/25 clone
- with 4M memory and 8M swap.
-
- Now, clearly, this is not any kind of scientific endeavor, but I
- will note that both machines were equally loaded in terms of percent
- of overall memory, and both machines had enough memory to run the
- dhrystone suite without swapping or getting otherwise nervous.
-
- The sun 3: my toy:
- straight up 15772 4468
- with registers 18450 5170
- optimized straight 25641 7824
- opt with registers 25641 7824
-
- The larger number, the better.
-
- Now, this study has nothing to do with anything, but by interesting
- comparison, my desktop 386 is grossly outpowering a vax-784 running
- 4.3 BSD/Mach and putting up a valiant struggle against a Vax 8600,
- easily besting it in the register competition but not doing so well
- regularly.
-
- This says nothing at all, really, I must hasten to re-mention, but it
- does indicate that Linux is a real contender in terms of speed with
- some of the big boys, given rough approximations at equal hardware.
-
- It also indicates that times are a-changin'. I'm writing this from
- my Linux box in an xterm. On that Vax 8600 which squeaks by my $1,300
- computer, you had to use multiple hard terminals.
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- Felix Sebastian Ortony fortony@murphy.gis.uiuc.edu
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