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Date:      Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:33:15 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>
Cc:        Bob Van Valzah <Bob@Talarian.Com>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jorge Aldana <jorge@salk.edu>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, <smp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Performance vs. Stable
Message-ID:  <20020228143126.P51203-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020227121320.X8086-100000@gateway.posi.net>

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On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Kelly Yancey wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Bruce Evans wrote:
>
> > >
> > >         Processor, Processes - factor slower than the best
> > >         --------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I think you are misinterpreting them.  The non-starrd results are
> > absolute times.  E.g., they say that the "null" syscall takes 6.1 usec
> > in 4.5-S and 6.1 usec in -current.  This is about right.  The "null"
> > ...
>
>   I know I am going out on a limb to doubt you, but are you sure?  The chart

No.  I just didn't believe the results, and conveniently forgot the details
of their annotation.  See the followup for corrected results.

Bruce


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