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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Why the original RT seemed/was slow (was ...)
Summary: Anti-tank weapons
Message-ID: <962@vsi.COM>
Date: 5 Dec 88 16:11:08 GMT
References: <5046@polya.Stanford.EDU> <1287@auschs.UUCP> <1309@auschs.UUCP> <628@pcrat.UUCP>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <628@pcrat.UUCP>, rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes:
< [...]
< Which makes them pretty much useless as an indication
< of anything other than that the optimizer people have been
< at work. 
< 
< Dhrystone 2.1 is not as easily fooled by optimizers.  How
< about posting some 2.1 numbers for the record?

This looks like the traditional battle between the people
who make tank armor and those who make anti-tank weapons...

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