> 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'
> 

Sun 167 MHz UltraSPARC, 300 MB RAM, SunOS 5.5:

<it>/home/ender% cc -O -o copyvalue copyvalue.c
<it>/home/ender% ./copyvalue
Start simple copy:
 long: 0.000 seconds
  int: 0.000 seconds
short: 0.000 seconds
 char: 0.000 seconds
Start subroutine calls:
 long: 0.134 seconds
  int: 0.122 seconds
short: 0.074 seconds
 char: 0.120 seconds
<it>/home/ender% cc -o copyvalue copyvalue.c
<it>/home/ender% ./copyvalue
Start simple copy:
 long: 0.198 seconds
  int: 0.204 seconds
short: 0.221 seconds
 char: 0.212 seconds
Start subroutine calls:
 long: 0.562 seconds
  int: 0.415 seconds
short: 0.297 seconds
 char: 0.315 seconds

Solaris isn't that bad...

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
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