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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Latest "bc" benchmark results
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 17:50:43 EST
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> The following benchmark was recommended by some folks from National
> Semiconductor as they felt the siev benchmark with its tight loops
> "discriminated" againgst highly pipelined CPU's...

What this means, of course, is that highly pipelined CPUs have trouble
running almost anything whose speed is primarily determined by tight
loops.  There are a LOT of such programs.  One can argue that the Sieve
benchmark is pointing out a real problem, and that this "discrimination"
is legitimate.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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