Xref: utzoo comp.unix.microport:1002 comp.unix.xenix:2659 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!princeton!udel!gatech!ncar!ames!lll-lcc!unisoft!gethen!bdt!david From: david@bdt.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.xenix Subject: speeding up compress on 286 Message-ID: <347@bdt.UUCP> Date: 10 Jul 88 02:57:02 GMT Followup-To: comp.unix.microport Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland CA Lines: 19 Has anyone looked into speeding up compress on the 286? Under Microport System V/AT compress runs really slooow. On a my 10MHz 286 with (only) 2MB RAM a 60K test file generally gives times of: 20.0u 1.0s or there abouts. I assume the slowness is mostly due to the hack to "simulate" larger than 64K arrays (which Xenix and Microport don't handle!). My particular problem may be raleted to swapping, in which case the speeds might be better if I had more RAM. Does anybody else suffer similar performance problems and if so, has anybody looked into speeding it up? -- David Beckemeyer (david@bdt.uucp) | "Yea I've got medicine..." as the Beckemeyer Development Tools | cookie cocks a his Colt, "and if 478 Santa Clara Ave, Oakland, CA 94610 | you don't keep your mouth shut, I'm UUCP: {unisoft,sun}!hoptoad!bdt!david | gonna give you a big dose of it!"