Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!texsun!newstop!sun!khb From: khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Moto's data predicts 68040 performance well below 20 MIPS Message-ID: Date: 17 Jul 90 00:56:12 GMT References: <40088@mips.mips.COM> <14900009@hpdmd48boi.hp.com> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun MegaSystems Lines: 16 In-reply-to: sritacco@hpdmd48boi.hp.com's message of 16 Jul 90 15:34:36 GMT In article <14900009@hpdmd48boi.hp.com> sritacco@hpdmd48boi.hp.com (Steve Ritacco) writes: Some machines SPEC numbers and MIPS ratings are almost the same. Remember that the VAX 11/780 has a SPEC mark of 1. ... This is true by construction. The speed of a VAX 11/780 running the SPECmark suite is defined to be 1 SPECmark. It would be amazing if other machine SPECmarks were closely correlated ... it would mean that one would not need a SPEC suite .... -- Keith H. Bierman |*My thoughts are my own. !! kbierman@Eng.Sun.COM It's Not My Fault | MTS --Only my work belongs to Sun* khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM I Voted for Bill & | Advanced Languages/Floating Point Group (415 336 2648) Opus "When the going gets Weird .. the Weird turn PRO"