From 99a350955150177edf840251817367d2c1a633ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Iustin Pop <iusty@k1024.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:47:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add a simple README

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 README | 16 ++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 README

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+This is a set of small programs for testing startup costs using perf.
+
+Yes, this is mostly pointless, but it was fun to do it and to look at
+the numbers.
+
+You'll need lots of packages installed to make all of the programs to
+work. They should all be available in (Debian) Sid:
+
+- java: openjdk-6-jdk openjdk-6-jre-zero icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea-6-jre-jamvm gcj-4.6
+- python: python2.6 python2.7 python3.2 pypy
+- etc.
+
+Main target is "make log", and it is recommended to run in in
+single-user mode, and with an idle system. For consistency, also force
+the make run on a single CPU (this might make things a tad slower, but
+the results should be more stable).
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