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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: A/UX performance
Message-ID: <4309@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 3 Apr 88 06:22:59 GMT
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davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) wrote:
>                                                       At this time I
> can't supply the original benchmarks.

My advice is:  ignore this benchmark.  If you can't get the sources,
it's hard to tell whether the benchmark is representative of what you
really want to measure.

Some of the numbers look pretty questionable to me, e.g. Sun-3/280 can
do 7,650,000 trig functions per second, but only 74,300 float
compare-and-branches?  Also note that the Sun being compared is the
highest end 68020 based Sun (25MHz, big cache, pricey).
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