On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 08:43:05PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >Linux(x86/700MHz)		real 0.3  user 0.02 sys 0.27
> >
> >Solaris(ultra5/360MHz) 		real 3.1  user 0.3  sys 2.3
> >
> >Shark/NetBSD(SA110/233MHz)  	real 9.2  user 0.02 sys 1.9
> >
> >Personally, I think this sys figure for the Shark is bogus -- it should be 
> >much much closer to the real time...
> 
> Just for curiosity's sake, I tried this on my CATS under Linux.
> 
> real    0m2.880s
> user    0m0.120s
> sys     0m2.760s

has anyone got access to the same class of hardware that can dual boot
linux and bsd, and try the benchmark assembled from the same gcc -S
output, so it is possible to see roughly what the relative speeds are.
I'm curious. I'd like to see what only changing 1 variable ("the OS") does

[not just ARM cpus - BSD vs linux on x86 would also be quite interesting]

Nicholas Clark