Re: RC5 contest news

Synthesizer Punk (anarchy@wasteland.org)
Mon, 3 Mar 1997 15:22:37 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Agus Budy Wuysang wrote:

> Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 19:48:39 +0700
> From: Agus Budy Wuysang <fswmis@rad.net.id>
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: RC5 contest news
>
> Agus Budy Wuysang wrote:
>
> I run the RC5 client with various binary format, and here are
> my results:
>
> Running client_dyn_aout...
> rc5-56-client: Performance testing with 1000000 crypts
> rc5-56-client: Complete in 11.017 seconds. (90766.14 keys/sec)
> Running client_dyn_elf...
> rc5-56-client: Performance testing with 1000000 crypts
> rc5-56-client: Complete in 11.134 seconds. (89816.40 keys/sec)
> Running client_st_aout...
> rc5-56-client: Performance testing with 1000000 crypts
> rc5-56-client: Complete in 10.962 seconds. (91228.11 keys/sec)
> Running client_st_elf...
> rc5-56-client: Performance testing with 1000000 crypts
> rc5-56-client: Complete in 10.990 seconds. (90993.72 keys/sec)
>
>
> Machine:
> Dell Optiplex GxPro PPRO 200 (256K)
> 32M memory
>
> dyn => dynamic linking
> st => static linking
>
> gcc 2.7.2.1 parameters:
>
> -O3 -m486 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops
> -ffast-math -fno-strength-reduce
>
> Libraries:
>
> libc-5.4.17 (elf)
> libc-4.7.5 (aout)
> ld-linux.so.1.8.8 (elf)
> ld.so.1.8.8 (elf)
>
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Why aren't you running it multiple times? I'd say, run it 9 times
for each client, add all the times together, and divide by 9. Round it
off a bit, who knows if sendmail wasn't sending a queu(sic) or if crond
was running a process. Gotta be scientific about it, eh :)

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