Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!lzaz!bds
From: bds@lzaz.ATT.COM (B.SZABLAK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Accelerator Benchmarks
Summary: A real life benchmark?
Keywords: CMI, accelerators, benchmarks
Message-ID: <692@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Date: 13 Jul 89 12:32:18 GMT
References: <12662@well.UUCP> <1732@hudson.acc.virginia.edu>
Organization: AT&T ISL Lincroft NJ USA
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In article <1732@hudson.acc.virginia.edu>, gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
> It's nice to see benchmarks; the only thing I could have wished for was
> (1) a benchmark of a REAL program with loops that does a fair amount
> of computing in registers with low cycle-count instructions (not shifts
> or floating point), and (2) less marketing hype...

I will repeat my earlier suggestion: Why not run the MSDOS benchmarks
on the ST using PC Ditto I and the accelerator. A comparison of the SI
values would be interesting, as would the BYTE benchmarks...