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From: ortiz@think.COM (Luis F. Ortiz)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: "Life" benchmarks
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Date: 8 Jan 88 15:18:22 GMT
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In article <1380@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
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	>LPPS: Life pixels per second.

	>Machine		Wraparound		No wraparound.

	>Amiga			1.28M			1.47M
	>Cytocomputer (a,b)	45M			45M

	Commnection Machine     1,500M                  ???

This was computed by timing the machine as it updated all of a 1024x1024
life grid on a 64K processor Connection Machine.

Rumor has it that someone here has gotten around 3,000 MLPPS around
TMC, but I have yet to see it demonstrated to me.

Anyone out there have a better figure?

-- cisco



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