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Article #954Re: awk is a dog under Sys V/3.0 386
From: Ken Keirnan
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1989 19:00
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1989 19:00
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In article <3272@sugar.uu.net> karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>'awk' is an incredible dog on the 386 under Sys V/3.0. Mine will only
>process 20-30 lines/second. Xenix on a 286 blows that away.
I wonder if the Xenix 286 box has floating hardware? It is true that the
floating point emulator for System V/386 is a dog. We have an application
that makes heavy use of awk. Before we added floating point hardware (a
80387 chip) the application took a little over three hours to run. After the
FP chip was added the same application ran in just under 17 minutes. When I
ran pure floating point speed benchmarks, the FP chip improved the processing
time by a factor of 45!
Ken Keirnan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!amdahl!pacbell!pbhyf!kjk From: kjk@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Ken Keirnan) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: awk is a dog under Sys V/3.0 386 Message-ID: <4523@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> Date: 14 Jan 89 19:00:07 GMT References: <3272@sugar.uu.net> Reply-To: kjk@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Ken Keirnan) Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA Lines: 18