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From: bcase@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Benchmarking
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Date: 8 Oct 88 17:42:15 GMT
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George Grenley says:
>Agreed on all counts, especially regarding waste effort (quadbyte string
>compare on a certain new processor - can you say "dhrystone in microcode"?)

I don't think you really want to start this line of argument; I mean, if
we are talking about wasted effort, there are many who would agree that
persuing aggressive implementations of certain processor architectures
is plenty wasted (please believe me, I don't necessarily mean the 32000).
Besides, that quadbyte string compare isn't dhrystone
in microcode, there ain't no microcode!  :-) :-) :-) (by traditional
definitions anyway).  If SPARC or MIPS or somebody takes over the market
completely, then what effort was wasted and what wasn't?

Let's all have a nice day.