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From: taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Stellar 7 re-release
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Date: 16 Dec 90 14:50:08 GMT
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> I would like to see a speed test though. Anyone got the source code in
> C for any of the standard tests? (Sieve of Erostones (sp?), and a few
> others I can't think of right now.) We could put together a collection
> of these and run them on all the machines we have access to, which would
> include about every machine concievable!

    'Sieve of Erostones'???  Like "Sieve of Dhrystones" or "Sieve of
Whetstones"???  ;)  I shouldn't talk, I can't spell it either...

    If benchmark tests were written in C, cross-platform comparisons would not
be very fair since different C compilers have varying abilities when it comes
to optimizing the code.  It should be hand-coded in the machine's native
assembly language to get a true impression.  Although most programmers use a
high-level language, so the C-compiled test might be more of a "real-world"
benchmark.


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