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From: swarren@eugene.uucp (Steve Warren)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: specmarks
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Date: 26 Oct 89 15:19:12 GMT
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In article <4420015@hpihoah.HP.COM> fotland@hpihoah.HP.COM (David Fotland) writes:
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>You could define an architectural figure of merit as Specmark/Clock freq.
>
>A higher value indicates that this architecture gets more performance for the
>same clock frequency.  I calculate:

                                 [...]

Did you really use clock frequency?  Or did you use bus cycles, which makes
much more sense?  For example, 680x0 arch. uses four clock cycles per
memory access.  So you need to divide the clock freq. by four to get
comparable numbers.  Etc.

--Steve
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