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From: aburto@marlin.NOSC.MIL (Alfred A. Aburto)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Checkered Benchmark History (was: NSIEVE C Source File (long))
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Date: 1 Sep 88 22:53:11 GMT
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The first published Sieve Of Eratosthenes 'benchmark' results appeared
in the Sept 1981 issue of BYTE ( Jim Gilbreath, 'A High-Level Language
Benchmark', BYTE, Sep 1981, pg 180 ).  Gilbreath says (in that article)
that he learned of the Sieve Of Eratosthenes program from Chuck Forsberg
at the Jan 1980 Unix conference at Boulder.  Gilbreath goes on to say that
he modified Knuth's program (Knuth, Donald E., 'The Art Of Computer 
Programming', Vol 2: Semi-Numerical Algorithms, Reading MA, Addison-Wesley,
every accesable high-level language.  There was a follow-on report by Jim
and Gary Gilbreath with hundreds of results (it seems) published in BYTE
Jan 1983.

Al Aburto
aburto@marlin.nosc.mil.UUCP