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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 23:46:21 -0500
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From: Dustin Marquess <jailbird AT alcatraz DOT fdf DOT net>
Subject: Re: Performance of Krzysztof program: sorry sorry
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At 10:43 AM 6/4/99 , you wrote:
>sorry, we picked out, that the power management of our
>board switches our CPU in some kind of suspend mode after
>20 minutes of inactivity on keyboard and mouse.
>I worked remote on the linux station and the power management
>does not recognize this, so i had to reboot and disable the system
>power management.
>
>After hitting some keys on the keyboard or rebooting, we get no longer
>these times for the gausil program:
>P2-400 egcs-1.1.2 -O6 -march=pentiumpro -mcpu=pentiumpro
>3.06 sec !!!
>
>but these times:
>1.14 sec!!!
>
>the Visual-C++ 6 compiler is slower:
>1.32 sec !!!
>
>thanks god (or allah, or my mother...)!
>
>Ciao
>Bernd
>--
>Bernd Melchers             | melchers AT FU-Berlin DOT DE
>Freie Universitaet Berlin  | "We don't write software, we compose it."
>AG Macromolecular Modelling - Prof. Dr. E.W. Knapp
>for more information see http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/~melchers/

         Let's also not forget that Win95/Win98 are single-user OS's 
(*cough*shells*cough*) compared to Linux, which is a multi-user OS.  Not to 
mention the difference between schedulers.

                                                                             
                              -Dustin