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KernelTrap: ConTest Goes C

“Con Kolivas recently announced that his ConTest benchmark has
been completely rewritten by Aggelos Economopoulos in C. The new
version, v0.60, has been consolidated into one executable from
several bash scripts, offers compatibility with FreeBSD, and now
comes with a useful man page (under the BUGS heading, the man page
simply and humorously reports ‘yes’).

“Read on for Con’s announcement, as well as some discussion
regarding the move away from scripts. Scrolling to the end of the
discussion you can view one of the first tests Con released with
this new version of his benchmarking tool. Note that the new
performance numbers are not directly comparable with the
old…”

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