Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!emory!gatech!burdell!juan From: juan@burdell.gatech.edu (Juan Orlandini) Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks Subject: Re: More issues of benchmarking Message-ID: <513@mephisto.edu> Date: 29 Nov 90 22:12:13 GMT References: <19040001@orac.HP.COM> <4344@awdprime.UUCP> <9516@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Sender: news@gatech.edu Reply-To: juan@cc.gatech.edu (Juan Orlandini) Organization: ICS Lab Lines: 29 In article meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes: >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 :-). > >On a DECstation 2100, you get: > > 13.4 real 12.6 user 0.2 sys On my sparcstation 1 I got: 16.0 real 15.2 user 0.1 sys I think something is amiss with Jon's machine. Juan ======================================================================= Juan Orlandini /// "Whe have not inherited this /// Super User At Large /// earth from our parents, but /// College of Computing \\\/// rather borrowed it from our \\\/// juan@cc.gatech.edu \XX/ children." -- Unknown \XX/ =======================================================================