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From: crisp@mips.COM (Richard Crisp)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: MC68040 benchmark claims
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Date: 11 Feb 90 21:09:48 GMT
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In article <2938@oakhill.UUCP> davet@oakhill.UUCP (David Trissel) writes:
>
>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


Dave, would you describe the environment (hardware, software, clock rate,
memory access time (in clock cycles)) for the 68040 system whose performance
you quote? As has been stated time and again in this forum, without such
data benchmark results are meaningless.

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