Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!xios!greg From: greg@xios.XIOS.UUCP (Greg Franks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k,comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Forth Inc 68020/80386 benchmark. Message-ID: <435@xios.XIOS.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 09:11:26 EST Article-I.D.: xios.435 Posted: Thu Nov 26 09:11:26 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Nov-87 01:20:21 EST References: <970@sugar.UUCP> <1289@nrcvax.UUCP> <601@pembina.UUCP> Reply-To: greg@sdn.UUCP (Greg Franks) Organization: XIOS Systems Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Lines: 20 Xref: dciem comp.sys.m68k:602 comp.lang.forth:220 # #For anyone else, such a benchmark is useless, because the system one uses #includes the compilers used to generate code, the memory system, the disks, #and so on. I highly doubt that anyone would code a significant application in #assembler, simply because the software development and maintenance costs would #be astronomical. # Au-contrairie: In the *real world* you will find lots of people merrily coding lots of assembler programs for your new deluxe electronic toaster. Telephone switches have lots of assembler code in them. (one that I worked on had a peripheral controller with a mere 256K of assembler using a 68000). Telephone switches generally do not care about disks. Any new fangled gizmo that has any sort of intelligence at all will have a microprocessor. HINT: they aren't running UN*X. -- Greg Franks XIOS Systems Corporation, 1600 Carling Avenue, (613) 725-5411 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Z 8R8 utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!xios!greg "There's so much to sea in Nova Scotia"