Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!oliveb!sun!cramer@sun.com
From: cramer@sun.com (Sam Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: i860 Dhrystones
Keywords: i860 N10 Floating Point Dhrystones
Message-ID: <95248@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 22 Mar 89 01:07:15 GMT
References: <39388@oliveb.olivetti.com> <15475@winchester.mips.COM> <95013@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <13641@jumbo.dec.com>
Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM
Reply-To: cramer@sun.com (Sam Cramer)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Lines: 11
In-reply-to: sclafani@jumbo.dec.com (Michael Sclafani)

Mr. Sclafani is quite right - I overlooked the section toward the back of
the document which he quotes.  My apologies for mistakenly claiming that
the "DECstation 3100 Performance Summary" contains no caveats regarding
Dhrystone.

Nonetheless, it is a bit curious that such a flawed benchmark (the results
of which are described in the section I missed as "difficult to fairly compare
amongst differing computing architectures") is used as the basis of a
price/performance comparison.

Sam Cramer	sun!cramer  cramer@sun.com