Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!husc6!hscfvax!pavlov
From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: SPARC vs. MIPS on gcc
Keywords: SPARC, MIPS
Message-ID: <697@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 88 02:39:45 GMT
References: <82150@sun.uucp>
Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
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In article <82150@sun.uucp>, edkelly%aisling@Sun.COM (Ed Kelly) writes:
> 
>             A COMPARISON OF SPARC VS MIPS ON A LARGE C PROGRAM.
> 
> For the comparison we chose a large portable C program (the GNU C Compiler rev
> 1.24) and compiled the identical source on a Sun-4/280 with the SPARC compiler
> to produce a SPARC binary, and on a MIPS M/1000 with the MIPS compiler to 
> produce a MIPS binary.              ^^^^^^^^^^^

  Why did you not use a current-generation MIPS in the comparison ???