home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!rutgers!spcvxb.spc.edu!terry
- From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.vms-posix
- Subject: Re: name of VMS product has changed...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.030903.3648@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 07:09:03 GMT
- References: <2415@mitech.com> <1992Aug18.091028@mccall.com> <1992Aug18.223322.25145@src.honeywell.com>
- Organization: St. Peter's College, US
- Lines: 22
-
- In article <1992Aug18.223322.25145@src.honeywell.com>, kish@iasdvc.honeywell.com writes:
- > I ran a c version of the whestone benchmark and it ran at a apparent rate
- > of .5 of the VMS copy. As it turns out it was the fact that POSIX
- > does dynamic links to the RTL. In this case I was calling a bunch
- > of functions which each had to be linked on call ( at least the first time).
- > This distorted the numbers to give the idea that compute bound process
- > run slow. Actally it turns out the intuitive answer is correct they run
- > at the process speed.
- >
- > I did some similar testing for "FORKED" things which did not look as bad
- > as native VMS immages but still no where close to ULTRIX. Which to be honest
- > was really all I expected.
-
- I just tried flipping into Posix and doing a "man tar" on an idle 8650. It
- took 15 seconds to get the first line of output, and the screen then updated
- at a rate of about 1 line per second.
-
- I think this VMS Posix stuff needs more work 8-)
-
- Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
- terry@spcvxa.bitnet St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
- terry@spcvxa.spc.edu +1 201 915 9381
-