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From: nigel@minster.UUCP (nigel)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.micro.atari,net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Amiga Benchmark Posted
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Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 08:07:46 EST
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In article <663@ecsvax.UUCP> mjg@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael Gingell) writes:
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>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 *.