Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!ditmela!yarra!melba.bby.oz.au!leo!gnb From: gnb@bby.oz.au (Gregory N. Bond) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Dhrystones (yuk!) for Solbourne Series/5 Message-ID: Date: 11 Jan 90 03:10:23 GMT Sender: news@melba.bby.oz.au Organization: Burdett, Buckeridge and Young Ltd. Lines: 24 For what it is worth: We just got our Solbourne upgraded to a Series 5 CPU, using the new (33MHz?) Cypres CMOS sparc chip. Solbourne MP/OS 4.0B (which is SunOs 4.0.1 + a bit), standard compiler. Runnung full multi user, some background stuff happening. No other CPU bound job. dhrystone.c, vers C/1.1, 12/01/84 Check this out: leo# cc -O -DREG=register dhrystone.c -o dryRO leo# ./dryRO Dhrystone(1.1) time for 500000 passes = 13 This machine benchmarks at 36275 dhrystones/second Which is better than the fastest machine listed: the IBM3090/200. Wowzers! I though it felt faster than my 3/80! Greg. -- Gregory Bond, Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd, Melbourne, Australia Internet: gnb@melba.bby.oz.au non-MX: gnb%melba.bby.oz@uunet.uu.net Uucp: {uunet,pyramid,ubc-cs,ukc,mcvax,prlb2,nttlab...}!munnari!melba.bby.oz!gnb