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

Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 26 Feb 1997 18:51:39 +0000 (GMT)


On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Laslo Orto wrote:

>
>
> 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)
>
>
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

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