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From: brownc@utah-cs.UUCP (Eric C. Brown)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: In the cause of Science .....
Message-ID: <3536@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 13:01:25 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 14 13:01:25 1985
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In article <719@ecsvax.UUCP> mjg@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael Gingell) writes:
>> > >How fast is the Amiga ?. In the cause of Science I tried the Dhrystone
>> > >benchmark published recently in net.sources. 

>I should point out that the original 450 on the amiga was using
>the regular Lattice Compiler which uses 64 bit floating point
>arithemetic I believe. 

But there is NO floating point in the Dhrystone Benchmark!!
It simply tests Integer arithmetic, Procedure Calls, Array Indexing,
etc.

Eric C. Brown
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