Re: a.out binaries that are 66% faster than ELF

Donald R Willhoit (willhoit+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:59:30 -0500 (EST)


Excerpts from internet.computing.linux-kernel: 26-Feb-97 Re: a.out
binaries that are.. by Bryn Paul A. Jones@gytha
> It seems that the 2.01 version is slower, with the orignal version I get:
> rc5-56-client: Performance testing with 1000000 crypts
> rc5-56-client: Complete in 6.086 seconds. (164317.93 keys/sec)
> ;)
> Bryn
> --

I get about 300000 keys/sec on my PPro 200 with the precompiled elf, but
if I compile 2.01 I only get 190000 or so....

Ryan Willhoit

Compiled myself (2.01):
rc5-56-client: Performance testing with 1000000 crypts
rc5-56-client: Complete in 5.233 seconds. (191108.01 keys/sec)

Precompiled:
rc5-56-client: Performance testing with 1000000 crypts
rc5-56-client: Complete in 3.363 seconds. (297314.65 keys/sec)