Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!assari.tut.fi!assari.tut.fi!kmk From: kmk@assari.tut.fi (Kai 'Kaizzu' Kein{nen) Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks Subject: Re: More issues of benchmarking Message-ID: Date: 1 Dec 90 00:52:13 GMT References: <19040001@orac.HP.COM> <4344@awdprime.UUCP> <9516@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <513@mephisto.edu> <515@mephisto.edu> <1990Nov30.132116.13462@cs.utk.edu> Reply-To: kmk@tut.fi (Kai 'Kaizzu' Kein{nen) Distribution: comp Organization: Tampere U of Tech, Finland Lines: 44 In-reply-to: de5@ornl.gov's message of 30 Nov 90 13:21:16 GMT On 30 Nov 90 13:21:16 GMT, de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill) said: Dave> In article zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes: > >Wasting more bandwidth on a trivial benchmark. > > echo 2^5000/2^5000 | /bin/time bc Dave> I can't resist. Me neither... Dave> Summarizing the results posted so far, and adding a few of my own: Dave> IBM RS/6000 320 4.4 de5 Dave> DECstation 5000/200 6.0 de5 Dave> DECsystem 5810 6.2 de5 Dave> Cray XMP (Unicos) 8.6 de5 [...] vtlehtori:~ 306 % echo 2^5000/2^5000 | /bin/time bc 1 real 2.8 user 2.8 sys 0.0 vtlehtori:~ 307 % uname -A vtlehtori vtlehtori 4_51 UMIPS mips RC6280 ATT_V3_0 vtlehtori:~ 308 % (consistently in 5 tests) Dave> Disappointing Cray result, but the IBM was impressive. I *knew* they were slow... :) Some mips R3000 processor results: real user sys MIPS RC3280: 7.0 6.0 0.2 (1 R3000) Stardent 3000: 6.0 5.8 0.1 (4 R3000s) Silicon Graphics 4D/380SX: 5.2 5.2 0.0 (8 R3000s) -- ------------------------------------------------------ - Kai 'Kaizzu' Kein{nen < - > kmk@tut.fi - - Tampere University of Technology, Computing Center - ------------------------------------------------------ Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com