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From: abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next and the competition
Summary: 68030 vs. 80386
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Date: 4 Jan 89 14:40:17 GMT
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Running the dhrystone test (version 1.1), our Sequent Symmetry (80386 at
16 mhz) with write-back cache is about 6% faster than my NeXT.  I suspect
some of the difference is a result of better compiler technology on the
Symmetry.