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From: jwhitnel@csib.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Intel Microprocessors
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Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 13:04:43 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 25 13:04:43 1987
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In article <257@etn-rad.UUCP| jru@etn-rad.UUCP (0000-John Unekis) writes:
| FLAME ON!!!----
|
| ...
|
|I would hate to impugn the reputation of a Magazine like BYTE by suggesting
|that they would publish a test where the results were deliberatley falsified,
|but it is true that the best way to make INTEL look better than Motorola
|is to LIE.

It looks like Byte uses the standard Intel method of benchmarking.  Take the
best 80386 compiler you can find, the take a mediocre '020 compiler, run
them aginst each other and call it a CPU vs. CPU test.  For two indepent
sets of benchmarks, see IEEE Micro Vol 6, No 4, pp 53-58 "A Benchmark
Comparison of 32-bit Microprocessors" and IEEE Micro Vol 7 No 3 "A Synthetic
Instruction Mix for Evaluating Microprocessor Performance"  The former shows
(using the EDN benchmarks) that the 020 is about 1.75 times faster then the 386.
I've posted a summary of the results from these articles to comp.sys.mac.


Jerry Whitnell                           It's a damn poor mind that can only
Communication Solutions, Inc.            think of one way to spell a word.
						-- Andrew Jackson