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In article <27637@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) writes:
>Okay, I will bite on this!  Here are elapsed times in seconds for
>the unpacking of a source archive on some representative machines.
>
>MACHINE and OS				TIME in SEC
>Cray YMP running NLTSS				40
>Cray XMP4/16 running LTSS			5
>SUN2/50 DISKLESS SUNOS 3.4			10.8
>SUN3/50 DISKLESS SUNOS 4.0.1			6.9
>SUN3 WITH DISK SUNOS 4.0.1			2.7

Real-time seconds, or system-time seconds?  How loaded were each of the
machines?  What kind of archive?  What program was unarchiving them?  Any
chance that the YMP had the archive on a disk over ethernet (I *hope* not!)?

>Which is the mainframe? Which would you rather compile and load a program on?

I'd rather compile on the Cray's, thank you very much.  Of course, on the
Cray's, I'd also rather program in FORTRAN, not C (assembly would not even
be my first choice on those machines).

I can, if you wish, come up with other numbers (such as, for example, how
long it takes to compiler SPICE on a Sun 2 and 4, versus compiling in on
a CDC Cyber 170/760.  Incidently, the Cyber was at least an order of
magnitude faster); one set of numbers, with no other information, is not a
good indicator.

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