#include <hallo.h> * Glenn McGrath [Sun, Nov 09 2003, 05:09:32PM]: > > What does that mean? Gentoo uses a heavily patched kernel which goes > > far beyound of what we dicuss > > I was in a debian chroot under a gentoo system hence both tests used the > same kernel.
But different programs. As said by others, most difference comes from the application itself. Let's compare default bzip2 and one compiled for p4: # time bzip2 -9 < out.wav > /dev/null real 0m48.989s user 0m41.930s sys 0m0.220s # time /tmp/bzip2-1.0.2/bzip2 -9 < out.wav > /dev/null real 0m39.017s user 0m38.920s sys 0m0.090s Do you see now that 8 of your 10 percent come directly from the application code and other two maybe from the optimized libc? There is not{hing| much} we have won using an optimised kernel. But the placebo effect has been demonstraded once again. MfG, Eduard. -- Einer Liebhaberin wird die Treue viel leichter als einer Gattin. -- Jean Paul