Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Dhrystone 2.1 (1 of 3) Keywords: integer benchmark Message-ID: <1059@ficc.UUCP> Date: 11 Jul 88 22:06:11 GMT References: <517@pcrat.UUCP> Organization: SCADA Lines: 11 One thing I noticed in this is that it makes the 80286 look a lot better than it really is, since it doesn't (even with lard... uh, large... model compilers) account for the problems you get as soon as objects get over 64K. There was an example in Byte recently, using the sieve benchmark, that showed about a factor of 11 difference between the 68000 and the 80286 as soon as arrays got over 64K. -- -- `-_-' Peter (have you hugged your wolf today) da Silva. -- U Ferranti International Controls Corporation. -- Phone: 713-274-5180. CI$: 70216,1076. ICBM: 29 37 N / 95 36 W. -- UUCP: {uunet,academ!uhnix1,bellcore!tness1}!sugar!ficc!peter.