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From: rchrd@well.UUCP (Richard Friedman)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What with these Vector's anyways?
Message-ID: <3652@well.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Jul-87 12:58:19 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 31 12:58:19 1987
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In article <10956@amdahl.amdahl.com> littauer@amdahl.UUCP (Tom Littauer) writes:
>
>If the Dhrystone benchmarks are to be believed, this isn't the case.
>The May '87 report shows Cray X-MP at 18,530, and the IBM 3090-200
>at 31,250. 
>
  
Just a minute.  As I understand it, the so-called Dhrystone benchmarks
are in  C  and Cray does not have an optimizing  C  compiler in general
distribution.  What you need is to look at Dongarra's LINPAK
benchmarks, which are in FORTRAN.  

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