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From: kjk@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Ken Keirnan)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: awk is a dog under Sys V/3.0 386
Message-ID: <4523@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 14 Jan 89 19:00:07 GMT
References: <3272@sugar.uu.net>
Reply-To: kjk@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Ken Keirnan)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <3272@sugar.uu.net> karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>'awk' is an incredible dog on the 386 under Sys V/3.0.  Mine will only
>process 20-30 lines/second.  Xenix on a 286 blows that away.


I wonder if the Xenix 286 box has floating hardware?  It is true that the
floating point emulator for System V/386 is a dog.  We have an application
that makes heavy use of awk.  Before we added floating point hardware (a
80387 chip) the application took a little over three hours to run.  After the
FP chip was added the same application ran in just under 17 minutes.  When I
ran pure floating point speed benchmarks, the FP chip improved the processing
time by a factor of 45!

Ken Keirnan
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Ken Keirnan - Pacific Bell - {att,bellcore,sun,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!pbhyf!kjk
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