[comp.sys.mips] xfroot on MIPS boxes

mac@rhea.ardent.com (Mike McNamara) (02/05/90)

	There is a benchmark, called xfroot, that ejk@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
(Ed Kubaitis) administers/created.  I have seen numbers reported for
various MIPS boxes which I can not understand.  These numbers are 60%
higher than I think they should be.  There are 60% higher than numbers
reported for comparable DEC & SGI machines.

	I am asking if any of you who read this news group have run
this benchmark on your machines.

	If you would, could you send Ed mail, and ask him to send you
the xfroot code, then run it on your machine? Perhaps whomever sent Ed
numbers for these mips machines made a mistake in setting up the code.

	If you do run this benchmark, would you time it with
/bin/time?

	Run /bin/time xfroot -a 3000 -b 3000 -c 3000

	Please send your results to Ed (ejk@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu), and to
me (mac@ardent.com).


	Thank you.


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