Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!ur-tut!ur-valhalla!micropen!dave
From: dave@micropen (David F. Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: For a good time, read...
Message-ID: <457@micropen>
Date: 8 Apr 88 13:44:34 GMT
References: <7841@apple.Apple.Com> <2737@pdn.UUCP>
Organization: Micropen Dirent Writing Systems, Pittsford, NY
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Summary: Nelson lost me

In article <2737@pdn.UUCP>, alan@pdn.UUCP (Alan Lovejoy) writes:
> In article <7841@apple.Apple.Com> bcase@Apple.COM (Brian Case) writes:
> >There is a wonderful article in EE Times this week.  Starting on page 49
> >and continuing on page 54, the article, entitled "CISC beats RISC in test,"

> not, how do you explain these results? Are their benchmarks simply 
> flawed? (Careful, these people have a good reputation for knowing what
> they're doing/talking-about).   
> 
> -- alan@pdn 

After this past winters benchmarks of 16 bit OS/2 and 32 bit XENIX showing
that (*suprise*) the 32-bit code runs faster by a factor almost identical
to the empirical speed difference that 16bit UNIX vs. 32 bit UNIX does on
the 80386.  The fact that Nelson published these benchmarks and only 
afterward acknowledged that it was apples and oranges doesn't boost my 
confidence in their "reputation for knowing what [their] talking about."



-- 
David F. Carlson, Micropen, Inc.
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