Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!vdsvax!barnett From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Tasting of Dhrystone 2.0 Results Message-ID: <4076@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 16 Mar 88 14:44:02 GMT References: <503@pcrat.UUCP> <4074@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> <506@pcrat.UUCP> Reply-To: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 26 In article <506@pcrat.UUCP> rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes: |In article <4074@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> I wrote: |>I am also confused by the 5 entries for the Sun 3/50 going from |>2344 to 3271. None of those entries mention whether the 68881 chip was |>used or not. | |Not knowing what a 68881 chip does (last time I touched a Sun, it |was a Sun/2, sigh), I can only suggest that if it has any bearing |on the results that submitters please include this information. The 68881 chip is an optional floating point chip for the low end Sun 3/50. Silly me. This has little impact on Dhrystones, correct? I still don't understand how one Sun 3/50 can be 40% faster than another. Anyone have any ideas on how to prevent 'strange' numbers without overloading Rick? What about another field indicating the number of people who duplicated the results. I would trust a value duplicated by 10 people more than the results of one person. But then you need averages, etc. ACK! Oh - You're welcome Rick. :-) :-) -- Bruce G. Barnett uunet!steinmetz!barnett