$NetBSD: patch-an,v 1.2 2005/03/03 11:54:31 garbled Exp $
--- ./src/timing.c      Fri Jun 27 04:52:29 1997
+++ work/hbench-OS/src/timing.c       Wed Aug 14 14:11:22 2002
@@ -201,19 +201,24 @@
 #ifdef DEBUG
 	printf(">> %d iteration gives %f seconds\n",num,((float)rtntime)*clkmul/1000000.);
 #endif
-	while ((time = ((float)rtntime)*clkmul) < 1000000.) {
-		/* while less than one second */
-		num <<= 1;
+	while ((time = ((float)rtntime)*clkmul) < 1000000./16) {
+		/* while less than 1/16 second */
+		num <<= 2;
 		if ((*workfn)(num, &rtntime) != 0) {
 			num >>= 1;
 #ifdef DEBUG
-			printf(">> backing off\n");
+			printf(">> backing off to %d iterations\n", num);
 #endif
-			break;
+			return num;
 		}
 #ifdef DEBUG
 		printf(">> %d iterations gives %f seconds\n",num,((float)rtntime)*clkmul/1000000.);
 #endif
+	}
+	while (time < 1000000.) {
+		/* while less than one second */
+		num <<= 1;
+		time *= 2;
 	}
 #ifdef DEBUG
 	printf(">> Choosing %d iterations\n",num);