Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!mcnc!rti!sas!walker From: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Dhrystone Message-ID: <607@sas.UUCP> Date: 16 Aug 88 20:57:20 GMT References: <8808150554.AA14630@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker) Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC Lines: 13 In article <8808150554.AA14630@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: > > This is why such benchmarks are ludicrous, when people fine-tune >the benchmark and/or compiler to make the benchmark look better. I won't I think your comment is the ludicrous thing here. Think about it and tell me you don't think in-line string handling improves performance on ANY program. Many of the in-line string routines in Lattice are both smaller AND faster than pushing parameters on the stack, branching, returning and cleaning up the stack. Benchmarks need never be considered. Once the feature is in, of course it should be taken into account when the benchmarks are determined. You are tarring Lattive and Manx with Intel's brush, when there is no evidence whatsoever that either is guilty.