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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 02:56:37 +0200
From: Marc Lehmann <pcg AT goof DOT com>
To: beastium <beastium-list AT Desk DOT nl>
Subject: benchmark, anybody?
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I have (or will soon have) uploaded two static linux/x86 binaries
on ftp.goof.com:/pub/pcg/test/

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       121378 Jun 29 02:45 bzip2-mx.gz
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       119777 Jun 29 02:45 bzip2-nomx.gz

it would be great if some people with amd-k6/cyrix 6x86/pentium-mmx machines
could benchmark these for me. I use

time ./bzip2 -9 </bin/bash >/dev/null

as a benchmark. please be paranoid about the runtime, i.e. time each command
a couple of times, on an absolutly unloaded system. The difference in
runtime between those executables isn't large (at least not on my machine),
so one must be careful in timing these. use real time not user time.

the absolute runtime doesn't matter much, the relative speed difference is
important.

thanks!

(use objdump -D to find out whats special about bzip2-mx ;)

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