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From: dfk@duke.cs.duke.edu (David Kotz)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Tasting of Dhrystone 2.0 Results
Message-ID: <11309@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 88 14:11:22 GMT
References: <503@pcrat.UUCP> <4074@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com>
Organization: Duke University CS Dept.; Durham, NC
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Summary: 68881 not much difference

In article <4074@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com>, barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
> 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.

The 68881 is a floating-point support chip and the test does no
floating point operations. It would therefore seem like it makes no
difference in the test.

David Kotz
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