Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!thinc!ethan From: ethan@thinc.UUCP (Ethan Lish of THINC) Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks Subject: Re: More issues of benchmarking Summary: Bad Benchmarks Message-ID: <122@thinc.UUCP> Date: 30 Nov 90 15:16:49 GMT References: <19040001@orac.HP.COM> <4344@awdprime.UUCP> <9516@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Organization: Tomorrow's Horizons, Inc. -- THINC Lines: 31 In article , zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes: > >Wasting more bandwidth on a trivial benchmark. > >Running my Sparcstation SLC on > > echo 2^5000/2^5000 | /bin/time bc > >yielded > > 44.5 real 43.4 user 0.1 sys > > That's about (45.9) what it yields on a 3/50. I suspect that this > isn't a very good benchmark :-). > > -- > Jon Zeeff (NIC handle JZ) zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us Greetings - This _benchmark_ does *NOT* have a legitimate value! Here are the numbers for my INTeL 80286 Box w/ SCO Xenix 45.8 real 45.1 user 0.2 sys NOW, You can't tell me that these numbers quantify the magnitude of the performance variance between a Sparcstation and a PC! Bye, Ethan -- "A compulsion for perfection, choking out the importance of finishing" in The Devouring Fungus by Karla Jennings Ethan Lish __________ 1.301.652.0651 __________ {uunet,anagld}!thinc!ethan Tomorrow's Horizons, Inc. 4807 Bethesda Ave, #330, Bethesda, MD 20814-5299