Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!pyramid!prls!mips!mash From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: CISC strikes back. Message-ID: <2159@winchester.mips.COM> Date: 10 May 88 05:54:15 GMT References: <30872@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <9337@apple.Apple.Com> <31124@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> Reply-To: mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 21 Keywords: System/370 CISC 100MHz In article <31124@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> chuck@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Charles Simmons) writes: .... >We just got dhrystone 2.0 results hot off the iron. The bottom line >is that we can do 74000 dhrystones using our current C compiler and >91000 dhrystones using our experimental GNU C compiler. > >And just in time too. MIPS was starting to get a little bit too close. Sigh. Not this year. (Like I said when "brash micros vs Big Iron" was the topic.) We'll just have to hang around while in the 25-45% range.... But then, none of our CPU performance graphs claimed crossover of VLSI RISC micro versus mainframe uniprocessor until 1989. :-) More seriously, thanx for posting the numbers: it's good to get some Big Iron numbers showing up in this newsgroup. -- -john mashey DISCLAIMER:UUCP: {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!mash OR mash@mips.com DDD: 408-991-0253 or 408-720-1700, x253 USPS: MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086