Has anyone ran a Benchmark test on their OS X Mac? I'm a bit curious to see how Perl on OS X stacks up against other systems.
I can try to run it on my iBook 366 ;) -- Bill Stephenson > From: Gregory Cranz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:54:42 -0400 > To: Brigham Mecham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: What up with the mac > > Comparing an arbitrary script is not necessarily a 'fair' or 'clean' > test from one system to another. I would suggest working with the > Benchmark module available from CPAN. This is designed to function in > this capacity and is more appropriate for performance testing. As has > been noted previously in responses to this query, there are a lot of > things that a script might do, without divulging your script, this would > probably be your best course of action. > > > > On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 03:31 PM, Brigham Mecham wrote: > >> >> >>> ---------- >>> From: Brigham Mecham[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 3:31:50 PM >>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Subject: What up with the mac >>> Auto forwarded by a Rule >> Hello >> >> Perhaps someone can fill me in on this one. I am comparing the run >> time of a perl program I wrote. Using my Mac G4 which has a 1.5 ghz >> processor and a 1.3 ghz PC computer (processor chip type I don't know >> but could find out) I am seeing that the Mac takes 14 seconds to >> complete what the PC does in 6! What's up with that? > >
