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From: cracraft@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: DECstation 3100 - is it fast?
Message-ID: <2056@gluteus.ai.mit.edu>
Date: 28 Apr 89 04:14:39 GMT
Organization: Project GNU
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After benchmarking the new 3100 with a C dhrystone program
(25,000 dhrystones per second), I felt it would probably
do pretty well on an application, since a VAX 8810 scored
8,333 dhrystones per second with the same C program.

Imagine my surprise when the application ran only marginally
faster on the 3100 (unloaded) than on the 8810!

Do you think (dare say) these machines are optimized for
the typical benchmarks?

	Stuart