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From: mikem@uwstat.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: f77 performance
Message-ID: <206@uwstat.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 09:45:42 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 30 09:45:42 1984
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> 
> 	 A user on our VAX-11/780 are running performance-tests on
> 	 different machines. The program is aprox. 7000 lines of
> 	 FORTRAN. The performance on the 780 is only 0.75 of a 750
> 	 running VMS. The comparison was done between computer-bound
> 	 parts of the program. When it comes to I/O it's even worse.

I don't know about the i-o, but compute times could easily be like this
if one machine had a Floating Point Unit and the other did not.  My
limited timings indicate that with FPA units, a 750 and 780 are about
equivalent on floating point intensive code.

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