Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!att!mtuxo!rcd
From: rcd@mtuxo.att.com (XG1V6-R.DUTT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Turbo C
Summary: Dhrystone numbers
Keywords: Calamus, Turbo C
Message-ID: <3972@mtuxo.att.com>
Date: 6 Jan 89 18:21:08 GMT
References: <834@sdcc15.ucsd.edu> <537@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu>
Organization: AT&T, Middletown NJ
Lines: 13

In article <537@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu>, hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:
> Apparently it's the fastest compiler yet, and produces the fastest code, 
> by a pretty good margin, from the numbers I've seen. And having worked 
> with Turbo C and Pascal on PCs, I'm pretty willing to believe 'em...

On a MEGA 2 ST (68000 CPU and 8 MHz clock) Turbo C (1.0) achieved a throughput
of 1730 Dhrystones/sec. By comparison, Aztec C (3.6A) clocks in at 
851 Dhry/sec on the same system, which is probably typical of most other 
compilers. 

-Rana Dutt
AT&T Bell Labs, Middletown, NJ
...!att!mtuxo!rcd