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- From: stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne)
- Subject: Re: SPARCClassic (and other Sun announcments)
- Message-ID: <BxzItA.Mq8@pix.com>
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- References: <1dpbvnINN1j5@almaak.usc.edu> <1992Nov11.190331.12893@eskimo.celestial.com> <15455@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:36:45 GMT
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- In article <15455@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- [...]
- >> SPARCclassic SS2
- >>
- >>SPECint92 26.4 21.8
- >>SPECfp92 21.0 22.8
- >>MIPS 59.1 28.5
- >
- >Hmm. One more reason to call it "Meaningless Indicator of Processor
- >Speed"? I'm curious what those "MIPS" numbers are, given how much they
- >differ when the SPEC numbers don't differ nearly so much - Dhrystone
- >MIPS?
-
- I am fairly sure they are Dhrystones. My guess is that the cache on the clasic
- is either larger or smarter then the SS2... or the compiler got alot smarter
- and the SS2 numbers are old...
- [...]
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