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From: plocher@sally.Sun.COM (John Plocher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Simple X windows benchmark
Message-ID: <140342@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 8 Aug 90 05:32:58 GMT
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+-- richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
| 	xterm -geometry 80x24 -fn 8x13 +j &
| 
| then put the following awk script in a file called x-test:
| -----------------------------cut here----------------------------
| BEGIN {
| 	for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
| 		printf("xxxxxxxxxxxxx %d\n", i);
| 	}
| 	exit;
| }
| -----------------------------cut here----------------------------
| Run it, from the above mentioned xterm, like this:
| 
| 	time awk -f x-test
| 
| and report the real time results.
+--

These test times can be reduced by 50% or more by replacing the
	time awk -f x-test
with
	awk -f x-test > /tmp/x
	time cat /tmp/x

This implies that you are measuring as much "awk" time as you
are "scrolling".  In fact, awk is a known abuser of FP, as
reflected by other comments about this benchmark.

FYI, on a Sun SS1+GX (1152x900x256), the test takes about 13 seconds.

  -John