At 11:17 AM -0700 1999/9/17, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> What we really need is something that generates a performance
> curve based on several variables, including block size, locality of
> reference (seek randomosity), amount of parallelism, locality of
> parallelism (i.e. operating on same files vs different files), size of
> dataset in bytes, and size of dataset in files.
URRP! Man, you don't ask for much, do you? ;-)
> I don't have the time to do it. Sniff!
Well, just adding forking to the current benchmark would be a
really significant improvement. Unfortunately, the only thing
rustier than my overall skills in programming C (over ten years ago)
are my system programming skills in C.
I am willing (and want) to slowly push my way into trying to
understand programs like Diablo, but that only works when I've got
someone much better than I am to lean on (such as you or Joe Greco).
However, I would have *no* earthly clue *whatsoever* how to even
consider going about making the kinds of changes you're suggesting to
postmark.
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