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From: david@torsqnt.UUCP (David Haynes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Rumour about IBM benchmarks
Message-ID: <1233@torsqnt.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 90 21:18:01 GMT
Organization: Sequent Computers (Canada) Ltd., Toronto, CANADA
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I have heard a rumour that the benchmark results that IBM posted for
their RS6000 system were the results of hand-coded, hand-optimized
assembler coding rather than the result of compiling C or FORTRAN
code. Can anyone confirm or deny this? 

-david-
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David Haynes
Sequent Computer Systems (Canada) Ltd.
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