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From: pjg@acsu.Buffalo.EDU (Paul Graham)
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Subject: Re: i860 benchmarks?
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Date: 7 May 90 18:31:03 GMT
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preston@titan.rice.edu (Preston Briggs) writes:

|pjg@acsu.Buffalo.EDU (Paul Graham) writes:
|>cca@newton.physics.purdue.edu (Charles C. Allen) writes:
|>|  They claim 80Mflops
|>|for a single processor at 40Mhz.  What kind of MFlops are those?
|>
|>as i understand it they simply replay the numbers they got from intel.
|>i believe these have some basis in linpack.

|The 80 MFlop at 40 MHz number is the peak performance.

gahhhh, indeed the linpack value i heard tossed about was 10-13 for what i
assume was the 100x100 matrix.  80 is guaranteed . . . not to be exceeded.

sorry about any confusion.