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From: lih@cbnewsk.att.com (andrew.a.lih)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: bc results (Coherent slams an IBM 3090)
Summary: Coherent beats a mainframe...
Keywords: Beat this...I beat it
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.230423.13969@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 6 Dec 90 23:04:23 GMT
References: <1990Dec6.133344.2544@cs.utk.edu> <3083@uc.msc.umn.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <3083@uc.msc.umn.edu>, ken@ab.msc.umn.edu (Ken Chin-Purcell) writes:
> An IBM 3090 600 Model J, running AIX MP:
>
> sg> echo 2^5000/2^5000 | /bin/time bc
> 1
> 
> real        1.9
> user        1.7
> sys         0.0
>
> World's fastest 'bc' machine?

Not quite, my AT&T 6386/25Mhz running Coherent wallops it:

	Real: 	0.3
	User:	0.1
	Sys:	0.1
	
Anyone care to explain this?  My guess is that Mark Williams Co.
who puts out Coherent really tweaked something!  Results for
2.1^5000/2^5000 were quick as well:

	Real:   1.3
	User:   1.1
	Sys:    0.1

The same hardware running AT&T SystemV/386 v3.2.2 got:

	Real:	16.6
	User:	16.3
	Sys:	 0.0
	
Andrew Lih
AT&T Bell Laboratories
(lih@probe.att.com)