It was thus said that the Great Jonathan Katz once stated:
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Sean Conner <spc at
conman.org> wrote:
Is that in minutes? Because if it's seconds, I think I'm gonna cry ...
-spc (Why do I get the feeling that's seconds?)
sgi 2# hinv -v
1 33 MHZ IP12 Processor
FPU: MIPS R2010A/R3010 VLSI Floating Point Chip Revision: 4.0
CPU: MIPS R2000A/R3000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.0
On-board serial ports: 2
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Main memory size: 16 Mbytes
Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 0
Disk drive / removable media: unit 3 on SCSI controller 0: 720K/1.44M floppy
Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93A, revision 9
Iris Audio Processor, rev 3
Graphics board: LG1
sgi 4# uname -a
IRIX sgi 4.0.5 06151813 IP12
sgi 7# time cc -o foo foo.c
0.4u 0.3s 0:02 26%
sgi 8# time ./foo > output.txt
57.1u 0.3s 0:57 99%
Just about a minute.
sgi 9# wc -l output.txt
250000 output.txt
I guess that's what you're looking for?
*Sob* Yes.
Man, when I wrote that code in the early 90s I really missed some
optimizations, since what you just ran in one minute took about ten hours to
run. Sigh.
Thanks to all that helped. I shall now go sob quietly in the corner,
thinking of the year it took that program to run ...
-spc (... when it could have finished in ten hours ... )