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From: dce@mips.COM (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: SPARC vs. MIPS on gcc
Keywords: SPARC, MIPS
Message-ID: <10137@dunkshot.mips.COM>
Date: 19 Dec 88 14:37:44 GMT
References: <82150@sun.uucp> <697@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: dce@mips.COM (David Elliott)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <697@hscfvax.harvard.edu> pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov) writes:
>In article <82150@sun.uucp>, edkelly%aisling@Sun.COM (Ed Kelly) writes:

[comparison of code generated by SPARC on Sun 4 and MIPS on an M/1000]

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

There's no point.  The M/120 and M/2000 have the same compilers and run
the same object code.  Since the comparison is of code generation and
not execution speed, the actual machine doesn't make a big difference.

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David Elliott		dce@mips.com  or  {ames,prls,pyramid,decwrl}!mips!dce
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