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- From: brossard@siisun.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Is Sparc out of Gas?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.160019@siisun.epfl.ch>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:00:19 GMT
- References: <3864@key.COM> <lg6j1iINN5dj@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1712@niktow.canisius.edu>
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- Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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- In article <1712@niktow.canisius.edu>, pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov) writes:
- |> 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:
- |>
- |> System # processors SPECrate_int92 SPECrate_fp92 Availability
- |>
- |> SUN 2000 8 8047 10,600 April, 93
- |>
- |> DEC 10000 4 9108 17,187 Jan/Feb, 93
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-
- What kind of data is this? I'm sure the 2 processors NEC we have in
- Switzerland is faster than the 4 processors DEC 10'000, but what does that
- prove? nothing! How about mentionning, price, technology used, etc.
- Beside, I would rather wait before comparing machines on which nobody
- can run benchmarks as of yet. (Yes, I know there are a few Sparcserver 2000
- out there, but you know what I mean).
-
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- Alain Brossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
- SIC/SII, EL-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Suisse, +41 21 693-2211
- brossard@sic.epfl.ch
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