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| author | John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> | 2015-06-03 10:23:35 +0200 |
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| committer | John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> | 2015-06-03 10:23:35 +0200 |
| commit | dc0e8aac6cd8b891e23a3bd29459eb63b07af3e7 (patch) | |
| tree | f4d4a0476199414c59c748885b3732bf0d886909 /benchmarks.md | |
| parent | 9ff1cccc955f108ed76b0039e1ca1b61d44cad56 (diff) | |
Added note on 64-bit timings in benchmarks.md.
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diff --git a/benchmarks.md b/benchmarks.md index 58b3de4..848c54a 100644 --- a/benchmarks.md +++ b/benchmarks.md @@ -31,3 +31,10 @@ with the benchmark input and the time to run it with no input. not penalized by startup time.) A median of ten runs is taken. The process is reniced to a high priority so that the system doesn't interrupt runs. + +Note that these benchmarks were done on a 32-bit machine. On a 64-bit +machines, sundown is significantly faster than cmark (0.146s vs 0.237s +on Intel i5/OSX with Clang, 0.130s vs 0.191s on a 64-bit Debian VPS +with GCC). I do not know why the performance difference shows up on +the 64-bit architecture and not the 32-bit, but that is something that +might be investigated. |