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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: VAX 8??? vs Motorola 88000
Keywords: VAX MIPS
Message-ID: <12261@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 88 22:08:10 GMT
References: <6921@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <28200161@urbsdc> <10595@sol.ARPA> <2476@winchester.mips.COM>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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>In article <12179@mimsy.UUCP> I claimed that
>>... the fastest Vax CPU from DEC is slower than the fastest 88000 CPU
>>from Motorola.

In article <2476@winchester.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) asks:
>On what set of benchmarks is this assertion based?

Actually, none, and thus, like all generalisations (especially this
one :-) ) it is false.

>(I believe it's true for integer and single-precision FP, and if you'd
>said MIPS, it would have been true for DP floating also :-)

I was thinking integer; most of our (CS department) cycles are spent
doing integer computation (unlike the EE department, where
end-of-semester crunches are almost all DP float).
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