Subj : Revised numbers
To   : Amcleod
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Mar 16 2001 10:40 pm

RE: Revised numbers
BY: Amcleod to Digital Man on Sat Mar 17 2001 04:18 am

 > Fairly literal translation, possibly a ton of Perlesque optimizations that
 > could be done, but it's too early in the morning for that.  On Zaphod (a
 > lightly loaded Celeron 500)
 > 
 >     Synchronizing clock ...
 >     Calculating Performance ...
 >     671193 addition and get-time-of-day operations per second

Wow, that's fast. On Linux, I presume?
 
 > Interesting to see what the P-III/700 does.  Also, Rob, you C-fiend you, wha
 > does it look like in C?

I'm sure it's a very high number, but my interest was in the comparable speed
of the script interpretter, not the CPU. :-)
 
 > Oh, I ran that several times with results all in the 670,000 to 671,000 rang
 > ut I don't know what averaging and rounding you used.  I think it might be a
 > idea to run the loop over a longer period, say 10 sec or even more, but I do
 > know how to achieve this without loading the loop with additional calculatio
 > maybe add 10 to $start before the loop begins?  But then $start would become
 > $stop.....

Nothing scientific, I just ran it about 10 times and saw what the average
appeared to be and rounded to the nearest 100.

Rob

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