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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
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Subject: Re: 386 vs 020 and big benchmarks (sieve)
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Date: Tue, 21-Apr-87 23:37:26 EST
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In article <318@winchester.UUCP> mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) writes:

> Even stranger, about 35-40% of the total cycles are in multiply, divide,
> and remainder, a behavior pattern found in no other benchmark that

Aha!  That explains my results last night, when I (just for grins) compared
a 16-MHz 386 with a creaky old 10 MHz 68010.  The 386 beat the '010 out
by a factor of almost 10.  Why so much?  Because my '010 compiler uses
subroutines for multiply/divide/remainder on ints.  I feel so much
better. :-)
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	Geoff Kuenning   geoff@ITcorp.com   {hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff