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From: dave@pmafire.UUCP (Dave Remien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: BENCHMARKS (Byte's) 368 vs 486 comp.
Summary: Mighty slow 25MHz '386, there
Keywords: slow, slower, slow
Message-ID: <1990Mar12.050521.16570@pmafire.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 90 05:05:21 GMT
References: <1990Mar8.175245.2527@pcrat.uucp> <1025@fiver.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@pmafire.UUCP (Dave Remien)
Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering
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In article <1025@fiver.UUCP> palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) writes:
>  You are right. Here are the revised numbers.
>  Once again 25Mhz 386, pcc.
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Without reg
>Dhrystones/sec:               5400             5400            141.14
>
>Dhrystone 2 using register variables
>Dhrystones/sec:               5709             5709            176.04
>

These still seem quite a bit low; here's what I get for 25MHz '386en,
Dhrystone 2.1:

25MHz, non-cached, 80ns RAM, pcc

				6576		6882

25MHz, write-back cache, 80ns RAM, pcc

				8605		8912

And for a 33MHz Compaq (64k cache?), pcc

				12019		11962


I wonder what kind of board Bob's using? And I'd certainly like to get my
grubby little paws on a '486 that works; the first one I saw (a
Micronics) wouldn't even boot UNIX, nor run DOS for more than five
minutes. It went home to Micronics.........
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