The trend has been approx:
On Linux
BSD qsort is 30-55% faster on average.
On Non Liux
BSD qsor it 50-90% on average.
This kind of says that Linux is doing something right in the kernal,
outdoing mainframe software in this sort of thing.
Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>
> I prevailed on some friends to try out a non Redhat distro plus HPUX 10.20 :
>
> 1 United Linux 1.0 (x86 Linux 2.4.19 )
>
> Value (i = index) BSD GLIBC (seconds)
> random() * mod 0.35 0.56
> i % mod 0.14 0.41
> i / (ITEMS / mod) 0.10 0.27
> i ^ 0x5555555 0.26 0.42
>
> 2 HPUX 10.20 (pa-risc1.1 D380 )
>
> Value (i = index) BSD HPUX (seconds)
> random() * mod 8.3 14.0
> i % mod 2.9 4.9
> i / (ITEMS / mod) 2.4 2.9
> i ^ 0x5555555 7.8 13.8
>
> The HPUX results are interesting !
>
> regards
>
> Mark
>
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