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

Laslo Orto (laslo@cpol.com)
Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:58:26 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote:

> Hmm, on an MMX 200, I get "Complete in 6.699 seconds. (149281.92
> keys/sec)" for the ELF executable as from the 2.01 source, if anyone
> want's to send me a a.out/elf pair, I'll test them ... (I'd participate,
> but I can't afford to keep my ppp link up, and I really don't want to
> come prod it every 27 minutes)
>

Strange , on our Pentium 166 with libc.so.5.4.7 and kernel 2.1.25 it's a
bit faster:

shell:~> rc5-client-linux-i586 -m
rc5-56-client: Performance testing with 1000000 crypts
rc5-56-client: Complete in 6.376 seconds. (156832.73 keys/sec)