15 Mar
2002
15 Mar
'02
10 p.m.
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Aaron Haviland wrote:
on another note, i've compiled povray for k6 and pentium and timed them, aka "time ./povray"
running on a k6 machine, the k6 optimised one consistently runs 1 second faster overall (33 seconds total) but the pentium optimised one has a .1 second lower sys time. which is better? (i don't have the output anymore. just thought i'd ask while on the topic of optimising) (yes, i read the time manpage. just doesn't seem to sink in through this thick skull :) )
Well, as I keep reminding my co-workers "The only measurement of performace that counts is wall time." So I would say the 1 second faster overall is better. Scott