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- From: heitkamp@ibm.net (Frederick V. Heitkamp)
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- Subject: Re: FWD: Fate of 68080
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- Date: 27 Jan 1996 13:48:34 GMT
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- Tomas Arvidsson (md94-tar@nada.kth.se) wrote:
- : In <4e9kg4$i1@serpens.rhein.de> mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
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- : >The table mentions SPEC results. That tells you nothing about processors.
-
- : Sure it does - if they are run on systems built for measuring the
- : processor performance, like most manufacturers "hot boxes".
-
- : It is not a prefect way of measuring performance, as no "simple"
- : benchmark is, but it give you a better approximation of the actual
- : performance than most other benchmarks.
-
- : BTW, are there any benchmarks around that doesn't measure the system
- : performace? All processors need some sort of system around to be
- : useful, even if it is built into the same chip as the processor, and
- : thus it will affect the performance.
-
- In my limited experience I have found that Windows 3.1 on a pentium
- (120 I think) was pretty darn slow compared to an old Sun SPARC and
- a PPC Mac appeared faster as well.
-
- I don't necessarily trust those benchmarks.
-
- I would think an '060 on a properly designed system would be faster
- than you'd think based on the lower memoryidth
- required by the instruction set. RISC seems to require a significantly
- larger amount of memory to do the same work and data needs to get in/out
- of the memory.
-
- I am sure that there are many '060s out there running UNIX or OS9.
- Perhaps those people don't sit around running benchmarks all day?
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- Fred Heitkamp
-