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From: kahn@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Shahin Kahn)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Why FP at all? (was: Re: Killer Micro II)
Message-ID: <1990Sep10.170606.22345@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 10 Sep 90 17:06:06 GMT
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In article <KHB.90Sep7103618@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM> khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages) writes:
>Go, formalize your proposal, gather statistics from "real" programs
>(spec, perfect club, US steel, etc.) using both the conventional and


"real" programs?  Programs cease to be "real" as soon as they become benchmarks.

Sometimes, It is not the code that is "real", it is the data-set.

Very few of these codes are real as far as supercomputng goes.  Most of them
fit within the whole of 16 MBytes and take the whole of several minutes to
execute.

Shahin.