This article previously appeared on listed.to. I’ve moved it here to consolidate my blogging
About 10-15 years ago, back in the heady days of Hampshire Linux User Group, we had a Wiki. It ran a heavily patched version of UseModWiki that we’d modified to add anti-spam and anti-abuse protection. We’d affectionately called it “AbuseMod”. It’s still kinda there, but I don’t think the content is ever touched. We used it to co-ordinate meetings, take notes, and some other fun sillyness. One such fun was Hugo’s Random Benchmark (Note: Not a benchmark). It was a single line we’d each run on our computers to see whose was fastest (Note: Again, not a good benchmark). It did this by counting to 100 Million in Perl. It’s a super simple single-line shell script which just times how long the computer takes for perl to go from 1 to 1e8 (100 million).
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