For comparitive purposes, I wrote this little JavaScript program that does basically the same thing as the Baja code in the last message:

var start = new Date();

var i=0;

while(new Date().valueOf() - start.valueOf()<1000)
i++;

print(i + " additions and time-of-day operations per second\n");

/****/

I ran this code through Netscape's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine (jsshell), which produced the following numbers (rounded averages):

38000 on the same lightly-loaded 700mhz PIII w/WinNT 4.0
3400 on the same lightly-loaded 300mhz PII w/WinME

Interesting, huh?
I've yet to run this script on my Linux machine, but I'm sure to do that tonight and will let you know...

Rob

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RE: PCMS performance (cont.)
BY: Digital Man to All on Fri Mar 16 2001 05:51 pm

I ran this code through Netscape's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine (jsshell), which produced the following numbers (rounded averages):

38000 on the same lightly-loaded 700mhz PIII w/WinNT 4.0
3400 on the same lightly-loaded 300mhz PII w/WinME

1300 on the same lightly-loaded 200mhz PI w/Linux

Strange, eh?

Rob

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RE: PCMS performance (cont.)
BY: Digital Man to Digital Man on Fri Mar 16 2001 09:59 pm

I ran this code through Netscape's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine (jsshel which produced the following numbers (rounded averages):

38000 on the same lightly-loaded 700mhz PIII w/WinNT 4.0
3400 on the same lightly-loaded 300mhz PII w/WinME

1300 on the same lightly-loaded 200mhz PI w/Linux

Slight correction for Linux box (400 bogomips), 2600 after reboot. <shrug>

Rob

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RE: PCMS performance (cont.)
BY: Digital Man to Digital Man on Fri Mar 16 2001 09:59 pm

RE: PCMS performance (cont.)
BY: Digital Man to All on Fri Mar 16 2001 05:51 pm

Strange, eh?

Uh oh, now he's talking to himself :-)

PG

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