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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
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Subject: Re: What with these Vector's anyways?
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Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 16:24:32 EDT
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> 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.  

Ah, now we do see the problem with benchmarks don't we.  When our group
was procuring computers performance was measured in execution time for
C code since we do all our work in C.  Who cares how fast it could do
Fortran, we weren't about to go and rewrite our applications in Fortran.
This caused several manufactures with probably competitive machines but
with lousy C compilers to be passed over (notably ELXSI at the time).

-Ron