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From: wsd@cs.brown.edu (Wm. Scott `Spot' Draves)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Neal Nelson Benchmarks
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Date: 23 Feb 90 19:30:18 GMT
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In-reply-to: gerry@zds-ux.UUCP's message of 22 Feb 90 17:19:19 GMT

In article <196@zds-ux.UUCP> gerry@zds-ux.UUCP (Gerry Gleason) writes:

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   From: gerry@zds-ux.UUCP (Gerry Gleason)
   Newsgroups: comp.arch
   Summary: Do they measure anything?
   Date: 22 Feb 90 17:19:19 GMT
   Reply-To: gerry@zds-ux.UUCP (Gerry Gleason)
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   I have just been going through a bunch of marketing hype for Neal
...
   The EE Times
   article has the results for his Test 5 (Short integer math) showing
   the Sun-3 to be ~10% faster than a Sun-4, which leads me to believe
   that the benchmark is bogus.
...
   Gerry Gleason


This may very well be accurate due to the SPARC's lack of integer
divide.

I would, however, seriously question a benchmark that claims to
measure performance of a certain class of applications
(business/personal productivity in this case), and one of the tests is
a very low-level, MIPS sort of rating.

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