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From: Sonny.Shrivastava@f555.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Sonny Shrivastava)
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Subject: Re: Surely A Iifx Blows An Amiga 3
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Date: 13 Oct 90 09:49:14 GMT
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Ok, I got the results of the Speedometer tests.  Unfortunately, the latest 
version of Speedometer that I have is version 2.0.  I will post the results I 
got with that.  The figures you quoted seem way off to me.  Som  of them make 
sense, but others are totally ridiculous, like the math results.  Speedometer 
2.0 compares its results to a stock Mac SE with a 20 MB hard disk.  Here are 
those comparison numbers:
        
CPU:  6.62 x speed of Mac SE
Math:  13.97
Disk:  5.05
Overall:  7.78
        
Now...
        
Kwhetstones/sec:  108.108
Dhrystones/sec:  5008.347
Sieve (Sec. for 10 times):  .583
Savage Cum. Error:  2.29745e-0111
Savage Time:  22.950
Savage Iterations:  5000
        
Unfortunately, some of these results are incredibly low.  That is because 
Speedometer 2.0 was not compiled and optimized for the 68882 FPU.  In the 
documentation of 2.0, I found that the author wrote a version (which I don't 
have, natch) that is optimized for and takes full advantage of the 68881. 
This is slower than a 68882, mind you.  With that, he got over 600 
Kwhetstones/second, and the above "Math:  13.97" jumped to 118!!  I will try 
to get my hands on a copy of Speedometer 2.5, so we can do an accurate 
comparison.  I provided the above results because I had them, but don't use 
them or quote them, because they aren't accurate or representative.  When I 
get 2.5, I'll post a message to you with the results.

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