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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Dhrystone 2.1 sample run
Message-ID: <3593@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 7 Oct 89 11:10:27 GMT
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In article <2472@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> root@cca.ucsf.edu (Systems Staff) writes:
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>Since the output of Dhrystone 2.1 is considerably different from the
>old version, here is a sample run.

Thanks for posting it.

I tried it and it seemed to work on the Sun at least.  I'll try MINIX
later.  

However, I consider it extremely poor human engineering to print out
a ton of lines that are the same (pairwise), apparently with the
idea that the user is to compare them.  Why can't the computer do that?

I think the interface of the first dhrystone version that simply printed
the answer is much nicer.  Any objections if I delete all the garbage in
the MINIX version?

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)