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From: davet@oakhill.UUCP (David Trissel)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: SPARC vs MC68040
Message-ID: <2938@oakhill.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 90 12:21:02 GMT
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Reply-To: davet@oakhill.UUCP (David Trissel)
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas
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In article <1850@cbnewsi.ATT.COM> ca@cbnewsi.ATT.COM (christopher.arnone) writes:
>
>Initial information about the 040 indicate that it will be faster than
>the SPARC at 25Mhz.  Of course, this remains to be seen.

The fastest Dhrystone 2.1 I have seen reported for SPARC (obtained from the 
report file delivered with the 4/89 Usenet distribution of the benchmark) is 
23,148 KDhrys. The MC68040 runs that benchmark at twice the speed.

 -- Dave Trissel - Motorola Semiconductor, Austin Texas