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From: jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org ( Staff OACIS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: SAS/C 5.10 Dhrystone 2.1 results
Message-ID: <39@oregon.oacis.org>
Date: 22 Oct 90 23:52:26 GMT
References: <1990Oct22.175350.13597@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: Oregon Advanced Computing Institute (OACIS)
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In article <1990Oct22.175350.13597@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> leblanc@eecg.toronto.edu (Marcel LeBlanc) writes:
>One thing that disturbs me is the huge difference between these numbers and
>those posted by Martin Hunt of Commodore-Amiga:
>
>>                 2500/30   3000 (16 MHz)   3000 (25 Mhz)   2000
>> 
>> Normal          5950          4300            6050         600
>> Registers       6110          4400            6225         620
>
>600??? 620??? this is ridiculous!  He claims to have used "lc -v -O ...".
>What gives?

Lattice has had Dhrystone performance on a stock Amiga of greater than
600 since V3.10, when they were quoting a figure of, I believe, 720.

It was my understanding that with appropriate options V5.0 was able to 
hit around 1,200.

Obviously something is wrong with Martin's figures.

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