On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> Sun SPARCstation20/100M RAM, SunOS 5.4:
> 
> Start simple copy: 
>  long: 0.402 seconds
>   int: 0.402 seconds
> short: 0.402 seconds
>  char: 0.401 seconds
> Start subroutine calls: 
>  long: 0.711 seconds
>   int: 0.682 seconds
> short: 0.853 seconds
>  char: 0.868 seconds

Sun SPARCclassic, 16mb memory, SunOS 4.1.3_U1, gcc 2.7.2 -O:

Start simple copy: 
 long: 0.155 seconds
  int: 0.161 seconds
short: 0.147 seconds
 char: 0.155 seconds
Start subroutine calls: 
 long: 0.468 seconds
  int: 0.466 seconds
short: 0.483 seconds
 char: 0.459 seconds

 Trust the happy fun Solaris.

'Good-bye and hello, as always'