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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