On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:59:10AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > It's not all loss. I have a small benchmark written in Perl to exercise > the CPU a little. [...] > use integer; This excercises the CPU only a very, very little -- a tight loop of integer math with no system calls or anything. Change this to do floating point math and watch what happens. -- Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>