Re: Algorithm Efficiency vs. Specialized Hardware?


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Re: Algorithm Efficiency vs. Specialized Hardware?

by t0mas (Priest)

on Jun 20, 2000 at 14:27 UTC ( [id://18966]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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in reply to Algorithm Efficiency vs. Specialized Hardware?

Win2k on P233/128Mb RAM.

Benchmark: timing 1000000 iterations of Grep, Max, Ternary...
      Grep:  9 wallclock secs (10.02 usr +  0.00 sys = 10.02 CPU) @ 99
+760.57/s (n=1000000)
       Max: 21 wallclock secs (20.92 usr +  0.00 sys = 20.92 CPU) @ 47
+801.15/s (n=1000000)
   Ternary: 22 wallclock secs (21.31 usr +  0.00 sys = 21.31 CPU) @ 46
+926.33/s (n=1000000)

This is perl, v5.6.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
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Linux RH6.0 on same machine (but different perl).

Benchmark: timing 1000000 iterations of Grep, Max, Ternary...
      Grep:  8 wallclock secs ( 8.39 usr +  0.00 sys =  8.39 CPU)
       Max: 26 wallclock secs (25.82 usr +  0.00 sys = 25.82 CPU)
   Ternary: 27 wallclock secs (25.67 usr +  0.00 sys = 25.67 CPU)

This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-linux
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