Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ukma!gatech!mcnc!decvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!ccicpg!turnkey!stanton!donegan 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. Lines: 19 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. -- Steven P. Donegan These opinions are given on MY time, not Sr. Telecommunications Analyst Western Digital's Western Digital Corp. stanton!donegan || donegan@stanton.TCC.COM || donegan%stanton@tcc.com