On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 05:36, Bruce Evans wrote:
> You should use a more recent version of lmbench,
That's exactly the sort of advice I needed. Thanks!
> but you might be
> rediscovering wheels here. John Dyson used lmbench many years ago to
> motivate large optimizations in vm. I have used an alpha version of
> lmbench2 since 1997 and have a database of about 100 files for interesting
> milestones. I must have run it thousands of times. The web site
> pointed to at the beginning of this thread has a not-so-alpha version.
> It is a bit nicer than the 1997 version (it now gives times in nanoseconds
> which is very necessary for current CPUs), but I haven't switched to
> it because it can't parse my database. The 1997 version is much nicer
> than lmbench1. It runs much faster and proces much better output and
> has many relatively minor improvements in the basic benchmarks.
Ok, let's get together off-list and work out a plan to avoid duplication
but cary this work forward so we'll have a good time series.
Bob
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