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From: njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Why the original RT seemed/was slow (was ...)
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Date: 5 Dec 88 06:56:30 GMT
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In article <3764@pt.cs.cmu.edu> rpd@RPD.MACH.CS.CMU.EDU (Richard Draves) writes:
  ..............
>I dug out my copy of Dhrystone 1.1 and tried to reproduce Sauer's numbers.
>		Sauer		Draves
>Model 25	 4000		 3270
>Model 125	 8300		 7855
>Model 135	 10400		 9765
>
>I used hc2.1d and ran the tests single-user.  Problems with VM don't explain
>the discrepancies.  (I wonder why the Model 25 number is especially far off?)
>Is there some compiler better than hc2.1d?  Do AIX and AOS get different
>numbers?
  ..............

I haven't asked Charlie, but I suspect that he would have used the
Advanced C Compiler under AIX for his figures.  I haven't compared the
compilers, personally.  This is a totally different compiler with
totally different numbers, I presume.  Charlie?


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