Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls58!mlord
From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 68040 Status - SPEC table with missing line added
Message-ID: <5969@bwdls58.bnr.ca>
Date: 8 Mar 91 13:52:39 GMT
References: <39747@cup.portal.com> <39825@cup.portal.com>
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In article <39825@cup.portal.com> mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater) writes:
<--------------------------------------------------------------------
<        Vendor      Moto  Moto  Intel Sun   MIPS  Moto  IBM     Intel
<        Achitecture 68040 68040 486   SPARC R3000 88000 RS/6000 i860
<        Cache       none  128K  128K  128K  128K  128K  64K/8K  none
<        Clock (MHz) 25    25    25    25    25    25    25      33  
<--------------------------------------------------------------------
<Integer gcc         12.4  13.8  13.8  13.8  15.5  17.5  17.8   11.5
<        espresso    12.8  13.4  12.2  11.6  17.7  19.4  20.7   20.0
<        li          14.9  15.5  16.8  11.2  20.4  20.7  19.8   17.7
<        eqntott     9.7    9.8  11.0  12.6  17.1  16.0  23.0   17.8
<-------------------------------------------------------------------
<FP      spice2g6    11.8  13.1  8.8   11.4  12.1  12.5  27.6   14.8
<        doduc       7.7   8.1   5.8   9.5   15.9  10.1  27.7   15.6
<        nasa7       11.5  12.1  5.8   14.0  18.1  15.2  35.5   45.0
<        matrix300   10.8  11.5  9.5   14.7  13.8  18.4  21.8   21.5
<        fpppp       12.1  13.4  7.0   13.1  17.8  14.7  54.7   21.8
<        tomcatv     8.4   9.1   4.3   8.2   13.9  11.6  75.7   34.0
<--------------------------------------------------------------------
<Means   SPECmark    11.0  11.8  8.8   11.8  16.1  15.2  28.9   20.3
<        Integer     12.3  12.9  13.3  12.3  17.6  18.3  20.2   16.4
<        FP          10.2  11.0  6.6   11.6  15.1  13.5  36.7   23.4
<------------------------------------------------------------------

Impressive collection of benchmarks!

Q: Did the i486 use a compiler which generates 32 bit code, 
   or was one of the more common 16-bit compilers used?

Q: Also, what CPU "mode" was used on the i486?  
   (Real?  Protected?  V8086?)
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