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- From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Is Sparc out of Gas?
- Message-ID: <1712@niktow.canisius.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 21:30:47 GMT
- References: <3864@key.COM> <lg6j1iINN5dj@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208
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- In article <lg6j1iINN5dj@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, ram@shukra.Eng.Sun.COM (Renu Raman) writes:
- >
- > Most of the current crop of RISC architectures are fundamentally similar
- > and if one were to apply the same compiler and implementation
- > techniques to all of them - its possible to find all of them within
- > a few % points of each other in terms of performance, cost etc.
- >
- If this is true, then SUN is having VERY serious problems with its compilers
- and implementation techniques. Comparing the latest announcements:
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- System # processors SPECrate_int92 SPECrate_fp92 Availability
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- SUN 2000 8 8047 10,600 April, 93
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- DEC 10000 4 9108 17,187 Jan/Feb, 93
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- greg pavlov
- pavlov@fstrf.org
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