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Re: give me back performance on sixtrack
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 10:11 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > I have no idea why there are such big differences, other than heat?
> > uptime? Why have I obtained a score of 668 in the first run? All
> > these run time evaluations are difficult to interpret, and they
> > reflect not only the performance of the compiler but also the state of
> > the whole machine, operating system and hardware.
>
> Never do measurements on a laptop. :-( Or you can use oprofile, so at
> least the event source slows down with the program...
Agreed. You even have to be careful with modern desktops -- they may be
running a cpu frequency changing daemon.
Jeff