Re: LYNX-DEV floating-point (was: using a dos xt)

[David Woolley]

> 
> typedef int HTCoord;
> 
> and compiled (the devel code, on SPARC Solaris).  No problem compiling,
> and Lynx seems to be running just fine.

I was sure the last time I looked (about v2.5) it had some 0.1s in the
character positions, but can't find them now.  Anyway, I've tried the
change now and it is a LOT faster!

Before:

djwhome:/usr/src/lynx/lynx2-7$ time /usr/bin/lynx -dump . > /dev/null
3.27user 8.32system 0:11.77elapsed 98%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps

After:

djwhome:/usr/src/lynx/lynx2-7$ time ./lynx -dump . > /dev/null
1.88user 0.68system 0:02.57elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps
djwhome:/usr/src/lynx/lynx2-7$

. is the top level Lynx source directory.  Both runs are second runs, to
avoid unnecessary page-ins.  The marginal improvement between an empty 
directory and this directory is even more impressive, although the
repeatability of the timings isn't good enough for accurate figures.


Linux djwhome 2.0.30 #2 Fri Apr 18 09:14:59 BST 1997 i386


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