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From: lerman@stpstn.UUCP (Ken Lerman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXTSTation benchmark
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Date: 16 Nov 90 14:37:19 GMT
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In article <742@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
->Some folks have pointed out that, to be fair, I should use gcc as
->the compiler rather than cc, since next really uses gcc and this is smarter
->than cc.
->
->So, for simple scalar floating point, the NeXTStation seems to be the
->price/performance leader (and even the performance leader!)
->
->--
->Barry Merriman
->UCLA Dept. of Math
->UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
->barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)


I would have more confidence in the "benchmark" if the total execution
time were closer to ten seconds than to one second.  How much of the
time was taken by loading and initializing on each of the platforms?

Ken