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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Clarification
Keywords: mips dec whoever
Message-ID: <24033@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 25 Jul 89 16:00:08 GMT
References: <2293@itivax.iti.org> <1636@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>
Reply-To: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
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In article <1636@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> cliff@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Cliff Marcellus) writes:

>I recently benchmarked both the DECstation 3100 and the MIPS RS2030 systems
>(looking for more workstations, again...).  THe two systems compared very 
>closedly in performance, except in floating point operations where the RS2030
>was roughly 30% faster.  (curious, me thinks).  I suspect (probably!) different
>compiler technology...  nonetheless. the information exchange would be most
>useful for FUTURE purchase considerations and such....

Although the DS3100 and RS2030 both run at 16.7MHz, the 2030 has smaller caches,
but (I think) a slightly faster write to memory, so they trade places
on individual benchmarks.  The 2030 does have newer compilers (2.0 vs 1.31).
-- 
-john mashey	DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc>
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