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From: staff@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: expanded bc results
Message-ID: <550@cadlab.sublink.ORG>
Date: 12 Dec 90 12:23:26 GMT
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de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill) writes:
	...
>AT&T 6386/25 (Coherent)    0.3/0.1/0.1        lih@probe.att.com
>IBM 3090 600J (AIX MP)     1.9/1.7/0.0        ken@ab.msc.umn.edu
>Fujitsu M780/10 UTS        1.9/1.8/0.0        toyama@ae.keio.ac.jp

Oh great, what a NIFTY benchmark indeed - finally I now *know* that
I can junk all 3090's and Fujitsu's and replace each of them with a
PC running the $99 Coherent OS - this will save us a bundle while
enhancing performance by 6 times and more.  BTW, I hear from a friend
who DOES own a Coherent system that it is FAR slower [30+ times] if
you compute 2^hugenumber ONCE, instead of doing it twice then 
dividing - MIGHT it not be that MW's bc IS optimizing...?  Naah, this
is tantamount to suggesting the utter worthlessness of this benchmark,
and who would ever want to be such a spoilsport?-)

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