sbw@naucse.UUCP (Steve Wampler) (10/23/88)
I'm wondering if I can impose on some of you. I would like to do
some (very) minor performance checks, on as many machines as possible.
(I hesitate to say 'benchmarks' because the checks really aren't
rigorous.) I have four programs that I'd like to compare the
performance of on various machines. (Well, actually two programs,
plus timings for 'fgrep' and 'grep' as baseline information.)
I did not write any of the programs, and one is a very specialized
version of fgrep (used by a company to check out some of the
features 'used' by fgrep). The other program is the implementation
of the Boyer-Moore fast find algorithm taken from 'Software Tools'
by Webb Miller (PH).
Anyway, if any of you would be willing to run them and report back
the timings to me, I'd be most grateful. Let me know and I'll mail
you (assuming I can reach you) a 13000-byte shell archive that
contains the performance package. (You will need about 300K of
disk on a UNIX(tm)-based system to actually run them.) There is
a makefile in the archive that will get machine information from
you, compile the tests, execute them, and build a file of the
results. If the programs work, all you need to do is to mail
that file back.
I'd like to get both RISC and CISC-style machines in my survey.
The only known (to me) system requirements are:
UNIX (any version?)
availability of 'grep' and 'fgrep'
make
the 'clock()' library routine, used by one of the programs.
the 'time' shell command.
Anyway, thanks! Let me know if you're willing to help.
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Steve Wampler
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