mash@mips.UUCP (John Mashey) (05/22/87)
In article <4329@nsc.nsc.com> grenley@nsc.UUCP (George Grenley) writes: >... >In article <826@rtech.UUCP> daveb@rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes: >>At last winter's Uniforum, I went around to a number of booths trying to >>run the infamous >> /bin/time bc << ! >> 2^4096 >> ! A while back, I posted an analysis of this, either here, or in comp.sys.m68k. THIS IS NOT A VERY GOOD BENCHMARK: 97% of the cycles are in one funcion, in fact, in a piece of code that's on the order of 256 bytes. Even weirder, something like 40% of the cycles are in multiply and divide, i.e., this code's statistics are not remotely typical. -- -john mashey DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc> UUCP: {decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!mips!mash, DDD: 408-720-1700, x253 USPS: MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086