On Tue, 19 May 1998, Simon Burge wrote:

[lots of interesting stuff deleted]

> On an entirely different note, here's some timings for the "crafty" chess
> program calculating it's own performance (over three runs):
> 
> 	DECstation 5000/260 NetBSD 1.3.1 - NetBSD binary (gcc 2.7.2.2+myc1 -O2):
> 		generated 480769 moves per second
> 		generated 479616 moves per second
> 		generated 480769 moves per second
> 
> 	DECstation 5000/260 NetBSD 1.3.1 - Ultrix binary (gcc 2.7.2.2 -O2):
> 		generated 614088 moves per second
> 		generated 614576 moves per second
> 		generated 615244 moves per second
> 
> 	DECstation 5000/260 Ultrix 4.5 - Ultrix binary (gcc 2.7.2.2 -O2):
> 		generated 587867 moves per second
> 		generated 589220 moves per second
> 		generated 587868 moves per second

Hmm.  So, does NetBSD run the Ultrix binary faster than the native one
because the Ultrix one isn't ELF?  Or is there some other reason I'm
missing?  I know I've seen NetBSD/i386 run simple benchmarks faster than
Linux, and I assumed that was because of the a.out/ELF difference, but I
don't really know...

Chris

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