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From: levisonm@qucis.queensu.CA (Mark Levison)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Integer/Multiply/Divide on Sparc
Summary: Validity of the Plum Hall benchmark
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Date: 2 Jan 90 23:09:52 GMT
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  Rich Neitzel posted an article suggesting that from the timings he
gave using the Plum Hall benchmark showed that RISC is often slower
than CISC. Although I don't have my C Users Journal handy I recall
that the original article said that these benchmarks where designed to
be small and easily typed in at trade shows. They were also designed
to stop good optimising compilers from doing as well as they might.
These code is certainly not representative of a typical code. A better
place to look might be the SPEC benchmarks.

Mark Levison
levisonm@qucis.queensu.ca
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