Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 12:51:41 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Jan Hubicka <hubicka AT horac DOT ta DOT jcu DOT cz>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Strange benchmark results
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On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Jan Hubicka wrote:

> BTW there is another strange behaviour of stdio version:
> sometimes it works w/o drive activity ans is very fast(0.77)
> but sometimes it does heaviy disk accesses and test tooks 9 seconds

Maybe this has something to do with the disk cache and the fragmentation 
of the disk?

I didn't see such effects with DJGPP in my testing.