Howdy folks,

I've tossed some very simple benchmarks (bonnie++ and a portion of
'openssl speed') up on the web at:

http://www.rospa.ca/fun/e3hardware/tillman/benchmarks.html

As the disclaimer on the web page says, I'm not expecting *accuracy* out
of these numbers.

My intent is to redo the benchmarks runs multiple times and use averaged
values, to expand it to include other interesting machines I have, and
to include a a few other numbers (like Xperf for platforms where that
makes sense).

There's a few interesting things that pop out:

* Sgimips is not as fast an crypto stuff as I'd thought - perhaps a
  cache issue?
* The SCSI bus on an O2 is nice and fast, even with old non-super-duper
  drives (especially compared to the IDE interface on the Ultra 5)

Anyway, I thought I'd toss these out in case anyone was interested.

-T


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