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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:03:45 +0200
From: Olivier Scalbert <olivier.scalbert@algosyn.com>
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Date: 2009-09-07T17:03:45+02:00
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jonathan wrote:

> This last test is worrisome.  Are you sharing the machine with other
> processes?  Here is what I get when I have 8-cores to myself
> (using GNAT 4.3.4 (GPL2009)):
> 
>  time ./knucleotide.gnat_run < /tmp/fasta250.dat
> 
>  real    0m6.647s
>  user    0m17.273s
>  sys     0m0.448s
> 
> and here is what I get when I share with another (heavy)
> user of the machine:
> 
>  time ./knucleotide.gnat_run < /tmp/fasta250.dat
> 
>  real    0m25.475s
>  user    0m24.766s
>  sys     0m0.708s
> 
> 
> Jonathan

My 64 bits machine is an "old" single core Athlon (512KB cache size). So 
perhaps it is normal !

Olivier