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From: etrmg@levels.sait.edu.au (What a Guy!)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: CP/M Benchmarksexit
Message-ID: <15711.274c2343@levels.sait.edu.au>
Date: 22 Nov 90 19:13:07 GMT
References: <1064@inews.intel.com>
Organization: Sth Australian Inst of Technology
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In article <1064@inews.intel.com>, dbraun@cadev5.intel.com (Doug Braun ~) writes:
> Can anyone suggest any benchmark programs for CP/M computers,
> such as Dhrystone, or something like the Norton "SI" program?

Didn't Dr. Dobb's have some of this type of thing in C some time ago?
I recall that the C User's Group might have had it alternatively. . .

I'll give it a look. . .

> I guess the problem with Dhrystone is that it is really a
> compiler/machine benchmark, and there is no standard C compiler
> for CP/M.

In Embedded Systems Programming tere was something on this type of thing too;
A Rhrealstone gage for Realtime systems. . .
I'll get that issue # tonight.

> To get things rolling:  My Z280 system and the Code Works Q/C Compiler,
> modified to generate Z280 code, give just about 500 Dhrystones/second.

Why do this?
Ronn