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From: dtynan@altos86.Altos.COM (Dermot Tynan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Integer Multiply/Divide on Sparc
Message-ID: <135@altos86.Altos.COM>
Date: 31 Dec 89 21:34:47 GMT
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In article <KHB.89Dec29150110@chiba.kbierman@sun.com>, khb@chiba.kbierman@sun.com (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages) writes:
| 
| Using the SPEC versions of               SPICE2G6    and     EXPRESSO
|                                                
| Sun3/470 (top of the line sun3 cpu)       4761s       	        461s
| Sun4/490 (top of the line sun4 cpu)       1486s                 151s
| 
| Which is a factor of 3x. 
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| Keith H. Bierman    |*My thoughts are my own. !! kbierman@sun.com

Wait a minute though.  Doesn't SPICE use mostly floating-point for its
simulations (I don't have a copy, so I don't know)??  If so, it's rather
foolish to benchmark Integer M/D, with a floating-point package...
						- Der
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