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From: mboen@nixpbe.UUCP (Martin Boening)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Dhrystone 2.1 sample run
Message-ID: <549@nixpbe.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 10:05:56 GMT
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As far as running this on MINIX is concerned, there may be some problems. At
least I encountered them on MINIX/ST. Namely, floating point artihmetic is
used in the computation of the dhrystones, which is not available under the
distributed ACK Version. You may have more luck using th fp library posted
some time ago, since you're running MINIX/PC. For MINIX/ST, the best bet would
probably be using Gnu CC. 

When I replaced fp by integer arithmetic, I got some 570 Dhrystones out of 
an ACK compiled version of 2.1 Dhrystone on a Mega ST 2, running the standard 
V1.1 MINIX-ST. This varied very little.

As to the human interface: I think dhrystone doesn't have one. I would call 
it debugging output,because if the strings etc. don't match, the results 
of the run are probably worthless.

Just my opinions, of course.

Martin

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