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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan J Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: (Useless) X (Meaningless) {digits of PI}
Message-ID: <1991Feb3.191824.19160@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 3 Feb 91 19:18:24 GMT
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Sender: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
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mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) writes:


>Here is an article that contains the cross-product of two allegedly
>useless pursuits: (1) promulgating small CPU benchmarks; (2) calculating
>digits of PI.

>The C code posted by jroth@allvax.dec.com (Jim Roth) on 25 Jun 90
>14:10:59 GMT was tried on a couple of machines.  This program
>calculates the first 1000 decimal digits of PI.

>Here are the meager benchmark measurements made to date (/bin/time):
>   Sun     SPARCStation 1+        9.5 real     9.5 user     0.0 sys
>   Sun     SPARCStation 2        29.4 real    29.3 user     0.0 sys <*** huh?
>   MIPS    Magnum workstation     3.0 real     2.8 user     0.0 sys

  Just as a data point...

  Using gcc under the MacOS, a bare-bones Mac IIci (25MHz 68030)
executes this in 10.0 seconds.  (this is best figured as a real time
measurement).


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