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From: len@elxsi.UUCP (Len Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Dhrystones are quite dependant on string handling
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Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 21:39:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  1 21:39:37 1987
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Results on the Dhrystones benchmarks are heavily influenced by the
efficiency of the various string handling functions.  Much of the
CPU-bound processing consists of string manipulations.  The results
being reported for benchmarking times may have more to do with the
string functions than with the compiler efficiency.

Anyone for assembly versions of those routines?  I don't even have
THE BOOK, yet.