Re: Speed kills -- 21.5 users will live a very long life.

I had a few spare cycles today, so I ran some simple benchmarks on one of the SunOS-5.8 servers here at work. I ran the attached script to generate timings for optimized, Mule and debug builds of 21.4 and 21.5 with and without my startup files, running both SunOS-5.5 and SunOS-5.8 executables. Here are the timings generated. ./SunOS-5.5/xemacs-21.4-2003-12-01 -vanilla ./xemacs -vanilla -kill 0.30s user 0.07s system 47% cpu 0.780 total ./SunOS-5.5/xemacs-21.4-2003-12-01 ./xemacs -kill 0.59s user 0.26s system 61% cpu 1.384 total ./SunOS-5.5/xemacs-21.4-2003-12-01-debug -vanilla ./xemacs -vanilla -kill 0.42s user 0.10s system 61% cpu 0.849 total ./SunOS-5.5/xemacs-21.4-2003-12-01-debug ./xemacs -kill 0.96s user 0.25s system 65% cpu 1.845 total ./SunOS-5.5/xemacs-21.4-2003-12-01-mule -vanilla ./xemacs -vanilla -kill 0.37s user 0.11s system 60% cpu 0.800 total ./SunOS-5.5/xemacs-21.4-2003-12-01-mule ./xemacs -kill 0.75s user 0.20s system 58% cpu 1.634 total ./SunOS-5.5/xemacs-21.5-2003-12-01 -vanilla ./xemacs -vanilla -kill 0.35s user 0.10s system 59% cpu 0.761 total ./SunOS-5.5/xemacs-21.5-2003-12-01 ./xemacs -kill 0.76s user 0.22s system 63% cpu 1.555 total ./SunOS-5.5/xemacs-21.5-2003-12-01-debug -vanilla ./xemacs -vanilla -kill 0.65s user 0.15s system 77% cpu 1.036 total ./SunOS-5.5/xemacs-21.5-2003-12-01-debug ./xemacs -kill 1.57s user 0.24s system 76% cpu 2.366 total ./SunOS-5.5/xemacs-21.5-2003-12-01-mule -vanilla ./xemacs -vanilla -kill 1.00s user 0.22s system 77% cpu 1.570 total ./SunOS-5.5/xemacs-21.5-2003-12-01-mule ./xemacs -kill 1.62s user 0.44s system 77% cpu 2.651 total ./SunOS-5.8/xemacs-21.4-2003-12-01 -vanilla ./xemacs -vanilla -kill 0.27s user 0.07s system 59% cpu 0.573 total ./SunOS-5.8/xemacs-21.4-2003-12-01 ./xemacs -kill 0.47s user 0.21s system 49% cpu 1.371 total ./SunOS-5.8/xemacs-21.4-2003-12-01-debug -vanilla ./xemacs -vanilla -kill 0.24s user 0.14s system 60% cpu 0.629 total ./SunOS-5.8/xemacs-21.4-2003-12-01-debug ./xemacs -kill 0.65s user 0.22s system 59% cpu 1.456 total ./SunOS-5.8/xemacs-21.4-2003-12-01-mule -vanilla ./xemacs -vanilla -kill 0.31s user 0.13s system 52% cpu 0.832 total ./SunOS-5.8/xemacs-21.4-2003-12-01-mule ./xemacs -kill 0.64s user 0.21s system 52% cpu 1.609 total ./SunOS-5.8/xemacs-21.5-2003-12-01 -vanilla ./xemacs -vanilla -kill 0.28s user 0.16s system 66% cpu 0.667 total ./SunOS-5.8/xemacs-21.5-2003-12-01 ./xemacs -kill 0.64s user 0.36s system 66% cpu 1.498 total ./SunOS-5.8/xemacs-21.5-2003-12-01-debug -vanilla ./xemacs -vanilla -kill 0.45s user 0.16s system 76% cpu 0.797 total ./SunOS-5.8/xemacs-21.5-2003-12-01-debug ./xemacs -kill 1.03s user 0.24s system 69% cpu 1.819 total ./SunOS-5.8/xemacs-21.5-2003-12-01-mule -vanilla ./xemacs -vanilla -kill 1.07s user 0.13s system 78% cpu 1.526 total ./SunOS-5.8/xemacs-21.5-2003-12-01-mule ./xemacs -kill 1.60s user 0.31s system 71% cpu 2.670 total -- In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. T.S. Eliot [URL: http://www.cs.amherst.edu/~ccm/prufrock.html]