On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> That's an impressive performace hit!
> 
> I assume that you directed the output to a file. Both machines ka650?
> 
> This is a serious performance degradation, and it _should_ be fairly easy
> to figure out where the hit took place.

yeah.. no, the machines werent identical. the slowness was on a KA420, my 
faster scores were on a KA650. Still, theyre comparable CVAX processors, 
and a factor of ten speed difference is not explained by the machines. 
the output was sent to /dev/null in both cases- i dont think that the 
kernel would be 10x slower in /dev/null, either... 

isildur