Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (nbench results)

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue May 24 13:20:32 PDT 2005


On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:17:01PM +0200, Bohdan Horst wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:37:08PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks, but if the machines are not completely idle then it's
> > impossible to tell whether these numbers are meaningful :-(
> 
> nbench give almost exact results under load :
> 
> (1,2,3 nbenchs running)
> 
> load 1: 496.1
> load 2: 497.7
> load 3: 498.78
> 
> and all machines have load:
> 
> 4.11: 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 4.11: 0.03 0.03 0.03
> 
> 5.4:  0.00 0.00 0.00
> 5.4:  0.00 0.00 0.00

OK, it might be trustable..but you're still testing gcc 2/gcc 3 as
pointed out by another poster.  If you use the same 4.x binaries on
both machines it might be better.

Kris

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