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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Don't look back
Message-ID: <13845@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 24 Feb 89 20:59:53 GMT
References: <20667@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <7330@pyr.gatech.EDU> <656@m3.mfci.UUCP> <7367@pyr.gatech.EDU>
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In article <7367@pyr.gatech.EDU> mccalpin@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (John McCalpin) writes:
...
>If you re-read my original message, you will see that I am talking about 
>SCALAR code only.  Comparing the performance of EXISTING Cray machines
>to the fastest RISC chips show that the Whetstone performance of a 
>Cray X/MP is not that much faster than a 25 MHz MIPS R-3000/3010
>(or an MC88000).
Note: we haven't seen any published numbers on the 88K, yet
but we generally expect a noticable difference between the R3000 and
88K on 64-bit scalar codes [noticable = 1.5-2X].
Hopefully, DG will provide a nice bunch of performance data to go with
their 88K product announcements next week.
-- 
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