Colin Wood wrote:
> 
> > Sun SPARCclassic, 16mb memory, SunOS 4.1.3_U1, gcc 2.7.2 -O:
> > 
[..snip..]
> > Start subroutine calls: 
> >  long: 0.468 seconds
> >   int: 0.466 seconds
> > short: 0.483 seconds
> >  char: 0.459 seconds
> 
> Sun 167 MHz UltraSPARC, 300 MB RAM, SunOS 5.5:
> 
> <it>/home/ender% cc -o copyvalue copyvalue.c
> <it>/home/ender% ./copyvalue
[..snip..]
> Start subroutine calls:
>  long: 0.562 seconds
>   int: 0.415 seconds
> short: 0.297 seconds
>  char: 0.315 seconds
> 
> Solaris isn't that bad...

So, Solaris isn't so bad?  :)  A Classic with "roughly" comparable
performance to an Ultra???
	"My GOD Jim, I'm a Doctor, not a Millionaire."
:-)

-Andrew