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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:40:22 +0300
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] ext3, reiser, jfs, xfs effect on contest
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Dave Jones wrote:

>On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:56:07PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > Try running with the -E option for gcc, it might be less CPU intensive, 
> > and thus a better FS benchmark.
> > 
> > What do you think?
>
>It's hardly a realistic real-world benchmark if you start nobbling
>bits of it though.  Not reading the preprocessed output is sure
>to bump the benchmark points on an fs optimised for lots of small
>writes.
>
>		Dave
>
>  
>
Sigh.  The alternative is to strace the compile, write a perl scipt or 
something to get just the FS related calls out of it, and then create a 
program with just the FS related calls.  gcc -E sounds easier to me.;-)

-- 
Hans


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