benchmarking cpus for no good reason

adding integers 10 million times shouldn't take that long, should it?

$> time ruby -e 'z = 0; 10_000_000.times {|a| z += a }'

openbsd 4.5 amd64 - 2.4ghz intel core 2 duo (thinkpad x200) - ruby 1.8.6 p368
2.750u 0.000s 0:02.75 100.0% 0+0k 0+2io 0pf+0w

linux 2.6.18 x64 - 2ghz intel xeon - ruby 1.8.5
2.925u 0.003s 0:02.92 100.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w

openbsd 4.5 amd64 - 1.8ghz amd opteron - ruby 1.8.6 p287
5.130u 0.000s 0:05.29 96.9% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w

openbsd 4.4 amd64 - 1.8ghz amd opteron - ruby 1.8.5
5.210u 0.000s 0:05.31 98.1% 0+0k 45+0io 138pf+0w

openbsd 4.4-current amd64 - 2ghz core 2 duo (vmware) - ruby 1.8.6 p368
3.648u 0.031s 0:05.67 64.7% 0+0k 5+0io 0pf+0w

mac os 10.5.6 - 2ghz intel core 2 duo (imac) - ruby 1.8.6 p114
8.984u 0.074s 0:09.40 96.2% 0+0k 0+1io 0pf+0w

openbsd 4.1 i386 - 2.6ghz intel celeron - ruby 1.8.6 p114
18.164u 0.976s 0:19.25 99.3% 0+0k 42+0io 130pf+0w

openbsd 4.5 i386 - 2.4ghz intel p4 - ruby 1.8.6 p114
22.040u 0.940s 0:29.76 77.2% 0+0k 64+0io 182pf+0w

openbsd 4.5-current i386 - 2ghz core 2 duo (vmware) - ruby 1.8.6 p368
19.540u 13.510s 0:33.21 99.5% 0+0k 0+2io 0pf+0w

openbsd 4.5-current i386 - 1.6ghz intel atom (dell mini) - ruby 1.8.6 p368
54.080u 0.060s 0:54.70 98.9% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w

it's not that surprising that the quicker results are on 64-bit machines, but it seems a bit ridiculous that my thinkpad can do something in 2 seconds that takes my dell mini 54 seconds. two vmware images on my imac, both running openbsd but one in 64-bit mode (amd64) and another in 32-bit mode (i386) are 28 seconds apart.