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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: When's Next Dhrystone?
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Date: 13 Jan 90 01:38:01 GMT
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Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Jan 11 22:28:00 1990


When will there be another net.survey on Dhrystone ratings?  It's been
a long time (over a year) since these were last published.

I saved a copy of the 2.0 ratings and gave it to at least 10 other
people who needed the information.  It's the most interesting
benchmark I know of.

Since the old ratings, 4 new macintoshes have been introduced, '486
PCs have come out, BSD4.3 is in wide distribution, the R6000 is out,
the NeXT machine was released, Microsoft C 5.0 is out, several other
compilers have improved, and C++ has become very popular.