Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4244 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 14 October 2007 17:22:02 Ian Smith wrote:
> After all, Unicode systems *really do* go slower than ASCII systems, and
> the test results should reflect that.

Not for people whose languages aren't representable in ASCII. For them, an 
ASCII system would be much slower

If you don't take into account missing functionality, you might as well run 
your benchmark on a machine with no OS at all (like DOS, for example) and 
declare it the overall winner. Sure it's faster, but what difference does it 
make if you can't actually use it for anything useful

If all you're interested in is winning benchmarks, I can provide you with 
patched versions of glibc and bash (where most functions are replaced by 
NOOP), which would beat all your systems hands down

Like you said yourself, compare like with like


Anders

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