Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site minster.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!dual!lll-crg!seismo!mcvax!ukc!reading!minster!nigel From: nigel@minster.UUCP (nigel) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: In the cause of Science ..... Message-ID: <589@minster.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 07:55:01 EST Article-I.D.: minster.589 Posted: Mon Nov 4 07:55:01 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 08:55:14 EST References: <663@ecsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: nigel@minster.UUCP (nigel) Distribution: net Organization: University of York, England Lines: 18 Xpath: reading onion.cs In article <663@ecsvax.UUCP> mjg@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael Gingell) writes: > > > >How fast is the Amiga ?. In the cause of Science I tried the Dhrystone >benchmark published recently in net.sources. Running in CLI mode only >and compiling with the current release of the Lattice compiler (no >Enums) I found it executed 50000 Drystone loops in 110 secs. Thats >approximately 450 Dhrystones/sec. > Ok - so we ran it on an Atari 520ST ... 1092 Dhrystones/sec. This is, of course, independent of graphic mode, but if you wave the mouse about it slows down a bit. Nigel Roles P.S. The benchmark is wrong. malloc() should be declared as char *.