17 Feb
2022
17 Feb
'22
4:24 p.m.
On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 11:42 PM Andrew Diller <dillera(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This would be more appropriate on modern machines:
moon $ sysctl machdep.cpu.brand_string; echo 9999k2vp8opq | time -p dc
On Feb 16, 2022, at 5:27 PM, Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Wed, 16 Feb 2022, Leah Neukirchen wrote:
I tried that on some of the systems I have at hand. It didn't even register on my
Mac.... Apparently it was a popular benchmark back in the
day:
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/AUUGN-V05.1.pdf
Yep.
> The benchmark was "echo 99k2vp8opq I
/bin/time dc > /dev/null’. It
> uses dc (the desk calculator) to calculate the square root of 2 to 99
> decimal places,
/dev/null
machdep.cpu.brand_string: Intel(R)
Core(TM) i5-4258U CPU @ 2.40GHz
real 1.87
user 1.87
sys 0.00
--Andy