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- From: bhandarkar@wrksys.enet.dec.com (Dileep Bhandarkar)
- Subject: Re: Alpha Architecture Quirks
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.150157.10229@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Dec14.072942.21962@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <8840087@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Date: 22 DEC 92 10:03:11
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- In article <8840087@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>, wlw@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Will Walker) writes...
- >Quite right, SPECfp92 is not very sensitive to divide or square root
- >latency. Which applications are? Possibly 3D graphics. Perhaps Mr.
- >Scidmore's applications are sensitive to divide latency since he
- >brought it up? I don't know.
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- The ora benchmark in cfp92 is very sensitive to the speed of square root.
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