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From: donegan@stanton.TCC.COM (Steven P. Donegan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Dhrystone 2.1 (3 of 3)
Summary: Bogus Results?
Keywords: integer benchmark
Message-ID: <88@stanton.TCC.COM>
Date: 6 Dec 88 01:47:55 GMT
References: <631@pcrat.UUCP>
Organization: Stanton Public Domain Systems, Stanton, Ca.
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After unpacking the 3 parts of the Dhrystone benchmark version 2.1 and
compiling via make without any errors or warnings, I attempted to run
dry2. If less than 1000000 iterations are chosen it immediately exits,
displaying a message that indicates the benchmark ran too fast (too
few iterations). If 1000000 iterations are chosen it indicates 16k
iterations are to be run then says my system has a whopping 346.1
dhrystones per second (which is at least an order of magnitude less than
the earlier dhrystone 1.1 program). What the hell gives? I am running a
80286(16mhz 0wait) system with SCO XENIX 2.2.1, the full development
system (Microsoft compiler, by sheer volume probably one of the most
used C compilers other than PCC) and have no problems with the earlier
dhrystone benchmark program. Any productive comments would be appreciated.

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Sr. Telecommunications Analyst    Western Digital's
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