Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!ukma!s.ms.uky.edu!neil From: neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene) Subject: Benchmarks (mac, NeXT, Sparc) Message-ID: Keywords: benchmarks Organization: University of Kentucky, Dept. Math Sciences Date: 1 Apr 91 15:12:05 GMT Lines: 39 Comparison of performance Article By: NeXTWorld - April 1991 Edward Jung is the program manager for the information at Your Fingertips Projec t at Microsoft Corporation and a pricipal of the Deep Thought Group L.P., a neur al network research and development group. Bruce F. Webster is author of The NeXT Book and vice president of reserch and de velopment at Pages, a software company in San Diego, California. Benchmark (count) NeXT Mac IIfx NeXT SPARCstation 2 ('030) ('040) Sieve (1000) 39.5 19.9 15.6 7.3 Sort (2000) 24.5 11.7 9.5 4.9 Matrix (50) 39.0 25.1 16.4 5.8 Float (10,000) 9.4 12.2 6.4 3.4 Savage (20,000) 29.7 12.3 24.7 5.6 Circle (500) 28.9 7.5 9.3 -- Square (1000) 28.8 14.9 14.9 -- Dhrystone2 5,451 9,011 22,727 34,884 Compilers Macintosh IIfx: cc -mc68020 -mc6881 -elems881 -opt full -opt speed SPARCstation 2: cc -O4 (Sun C) NeXT systems: cc -O (Objective C 2.0, from FNU cc version 1.36) -- Neil Greene --- University of Kentucky Mathmatics and Sciences University of Kentucky Computing Center neil@graphlab.cc.uky.edu [NeXT Attachments]