awk is a dog under Sys V/3.0 386
Ken Keirnan
kjk at pbhyf.PacBell.COM
Sun Jan 15 05:00:07 AEST 1989
In article <3272 at sugar.uu.net> karl at sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>'awk' is an incredible dog on the 386 under Sys V/3.0. Mine will only
>process 20-30 lines/second. Xenix on a 286 blows that away.
I wonder if the Xenix 286 box has floating hardware? It is true that the
floating point emulator for System V/386 is a dog. We have an application
that makes heavy use of awk. Before we added floating point hardware (a
80387 chip) the application took a little over three hours to run. After the
FP chip was added the same application ran in just under 17 minutes. When I
ran pure floating point speed benchmarks, the FP chip improved the processing
time by a factor of 45!
Ken Keirnan
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Ken Keirnan - Pacific Bell - {att,bellcore,sun,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!pbhyf!kjk
San Ramon, California kjk at pbhyf.PacBell.COM
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