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From: martin@felix.UUCP (Martin McKendry)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What with these Vector's anyways?
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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In article <3652@well.UUCP> rchrd@well.UUCP (Richard Friedman) writes:

>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.  

Actually, if you really want to, you can recode the function of Dhrystone
in any language you want an you might learn something.  For example,
there is a version in Burroughs Algol.  If you will cover my legal fees,
I'll try to remember the results :-).

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