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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Dhrystones (yuk!) for Solbourne Series/5
Message-ID: <34411@mips.mips.COM>
Date: 12 Jan 90 02:34:46 GMT
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In article <2818@cerberus.oakhill.UUCP> hunter@oakhill.UUCP (Hunter Scales) writes:

>	Are you sure this is right?  I get *70,093* dhrystones/second
>	on my 33 MHz 88100 (Motorola model 8612) with the Diab
>	Data dcc88 (ver. 2.34) compiler.  I get around 42k dhrystones/sec
>	with my 20 MHz 88100 machine.  And this is dhrystone 2.1.
>
>	The Solbourne compiler must be broken!

Oh good: a specific person who has run this compiler.
It would be very interesting
to post the lines of assembler code that are generated by the strcpy
function call....(since, Reinhold W. specifically says the Dhyrstone
performance cannot be compared without looking at the generated code
these days...)
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