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From: larry@mips.UUCP (Larry Weber)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What with these Vector's anyways?
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Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 21:07:38 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  4 21:07:38 1987
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Keywords: scalar vs. vectors, benchmarks, Dhrystone, sorting

In article <24645@sun.uucp> dgh@sun.UUCP (David Hough) writes:
>                  How many C compilers can handle Spice-3 fully optimized?
>And how many Fortran compilers can handle Doduc's program fully optimized?

In case anyone wants to count, the MIPS compilers optimize both Spice-3
and Doduc's program.  It also optimizes HSPICE and the UNIX kernel.  David,
is absolutely right:  real programs puts a heavy drain in getting the optimizer
done correctly.  I wonder if any "dhrystone" runs actually have bugs in them
but no one can tell because it computes nothing that can be tested.

Larry