Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!pyramid!prls!mips!mash From: mash@mips.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: MIPS Performance Brief: improvements to Sun-4 MIPS UNIX numbers Message-ID: <903@winchester.UUCP> Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 01:47:42 EST Article-I.D.: winchest.903 Posted: Thu Nov 12 01:47:42 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 12:53:31 EST Lines: 19 Keywords: benchmarks As noted in the earlier posting, we'd had to estimate the MIPS UNIX numbers from the somewhat-related earlier benchmarks. We finally got the real numbers, which yield about 5% better performance for the Sun-4. Here is the replacement table, showing guess & measured: MIPS UNIX Benchmarks Results grep diff yacc nroff Total Geom System Secs Rel. Secs Rel. Secs Rel. Secs Rel. Secs+ Rel. Mean 11.2 1.0 246.4 1.0 101.1 1.0 18.8 1.0 377.5 1.0 1.0 11/780 4.3BSD 2.4 4.7 35.8 6.9 19.5 5.2 3.3 5.7 61.0 6.2 5.5 MIPS M/500 7 8.5 9 7.5 8.0 Sun-4 estimate 1.6 7.0 25.1 9.7 11.8 8.6 2.2 8.6 40.7 9.3 8.4 Sun-4, -O3 1.6 7.0 21.6 11.4 11.2 9.0 1.9 9.9 36.3 10.4 9.2 MIPS M/800 1.3 8.6 18.0 13.7 9.3 10.9 1.5 12.5 30.1 12.5 11.3 MIPS M/1000 -- -john mashey DISCLAIMER: UUCP: {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!mash OR mash@mips.com DDD: 408-991-0253 or 408-720-1700, x253 USPS: MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086