Re: OFFTOPIC: Linux Kernel is Too Good.

Eric Lammerts (eric@scintilla.utwente.nl)
Sat, 7 Feb 1998 22:58:31 +0100 (CET)

On Fri, 6 Feb 1998 tigran_aivazian@dsti.co.uk wrote:

> I have run a very trivial program called loops.c:
...
> while(i++ < MAXLOOPS) {
> x = sin(x/(i+1));
> }
...

Trivial is the right word for it. On my system (Debian 1.3.1) gcc
optimizes away the "x = sin(x/(i+1));" because x is never used.
So this benchmark is utterly useless.

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Eric Lammerts <eric@scintilla.utwente.nl>
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"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"  -- Bill Gates, 1981
"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."        -- Bill Gates, 1996
"Nobody will ever need Windows 95."          -- logical conclusion


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