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From: mike@antel.uucp (Michael Borza)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: BENCHMARKS (Byte's) 368 vs 486 comp.
Message-ID: <1990Mar14.135517.864@antel.uucp>
Date: 14 Mar 90 13:55:17 GMT
References: <1990Mar8.175245.2527@pcrat.uucp> <1025@fiver.UUCP>
Reply-To: mike@antel.uucp (Michael Borza)
Organization: Antel Optronics Inc., Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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In article <1025@fiver.UUCP> palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) writes:
>From article <1990Mar8.175245.2527@pcrat.uucp>, by rick@pcrat.uucp (Rick Richardson):
>> In article <1012@fiver.UUCP> palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) writes:
>> 
>>>  Ok, I took the time out to run Byte's Benchmarks on a 25Mhz 386 and
>>>a 25Mhz 486. Some people out there my be interested in this information.
>> 
>>>CPU and speed= 386 25Mhz
>>>Dhrystones/sec:               2827             2826           4696.78
>> 
>>>CPU and speed= 386 25Mhz
>>>Dhrystones/sec:               2942             2938          25913.08
>> 
>>>CPU and speed= 486 25Mhz
>>>Dhrystones/sec:              18466            18464          96855.37
>> 
>  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
>
>  And 25Mhz 486
>
>Dhrystone 2 without register variables
>Dhrystones/sec:              30619            30615         239149.07
>
>Dhrystone 2 using register variables
>Dhrystones/sec:              31922            31919         271004.16
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Since noone else has commented on this, I must be missing something
obvious here.  What are your variance numbers measured in?  They make
no sense at all in the context of the quoted results.  Enlightenment,
please?

mike borza.
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