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
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In article <8808150554.AA14630@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
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>	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.