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From: david@sun.com (I refuse to say)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Floating point performance
Message-ID: <109882@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 14 Jun 89 01:15:01 GMT
References: <1440@ndmath.UUCP>
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In article <1440@ndmath.UUCP> mahesh@ndmath.UUCP (Mahesh) writes:

>operation           MacII A/UX    NeXT    Dec3100 Sun3-280 Sun3-280    Convex
>                                                    no fpa   fpa         C-120
>
>double precision
>  decrement             0.0704   0.4211   16.5517*   0.2453    1.0643  1.3370
>  addition              0.0686   0.7754   15.4839*   0.4163    2.5668  1.3408

>integer
>  increment             7.7922  12.3077    15.7895* 12.1212   12.1827  9.5238
>  addition              7.6238  12.2449*    8.1301  10.7143   11.9522  9.4192

The discrepancies between decrement/increment and addition make me very
suspicious of this benchmark.

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David DiGiacomo, Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, CA  sun!david david@sun.com