Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: missing Dhrystone 2.1 (1 of 3 &
Message-ID: <1988Jul18.231331.19575@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <4232@cbmvax.UUCP> <76700035@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 88 23:13:31 GMT

In article <76700035@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>I certainly find it hard to believe that the top of the line Amdahl
>machine achieves 90,000+ Dhrystones...
> It nearly doubles the performance of the best Cray compiler
>reported (admittedly, compiling C for a Cray is probably hard, but
>Crays are very decent scaler machines!  sheesh)...

Ah, but Crays are *not* good character machines, and Dhrystone is known
to be excessively string-intensive.
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