karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) (01/14/89)
'awk' is an incredible dog on the 386 under Sys V/3.0. Mine will only process 20-30 lines/second. Xenix on a 286 blows that away. -- -- uunet!sugar!karl | "We've been following your progress with considerable -- karl@sugar.uu.net | interest, not to say contempt." -- Zaphod Beeblebrox IV -- Usenet BBS (713) 438-5018
kjk@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Ken Keirnan) (01/15/89)
In article <3272@sugar.uu.net> karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: >'awk' is an incredible dog on the 386 under Sys V/3.0. Mine will only >process 20-30 lines/second. Xenix on a 286 blows that away. I wonder if the Xenix 286 box has floating hardware? It is true that the floating point emulator for System V/386 is a dog. We have an application that makes heavy use of awk. Before we added floating point hardware (a 80387 chip) the application took a little over three hours to run. After the FP chip was added the same application ran in just under 17 minutes. When I ran pure floating point speed benchmarks, the FP chip improved the processing time by a factor of 45! Ken Keirnan -- Ken Keirnan - Pacific Bell - {att,bellcore,sun,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!pbhyf!kjk San Ramon, California kjk@pbhyf.PacBell.COM
news@brian386.UUCP (Wm. Brian McCane) (01/15/89)
In article <3272@sugar.uu.net> karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: >'awk' is an incredible dog on the 386 under Sys V/3.0. Mine will only >process 20-30 lines/second. Xenix on a 286 blows that away. There is an even bigger problem. If I install (with installit?) something on my system running Micoport Sys V/3.0 r3.0e. The next time I use awk (dfspace for example) for any thing, the system locks up and I have to power down and then back up. I don't knopw if anyone else has mentioned this, but it has existed since I got r2.2 at least. brian