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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!exodus.Eng.Sun.COM!brahmand.Eng.Sun.COM!grover
  2. From: grover@brahmand.Eng.Sun.COM (Vinod Grover)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.arch
  4. Subject: Re: Alpha Architecture Quirks
  5. Date: 22 Dec 1992 18:12:31 GMT
  6. Organization: Sun
  7. Lines: 8
  8. Message-ID: <ljemkfINN8a@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
  9. References: <1992Dec14.072942.21962@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <8840087@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: brahmand
  11.  
  12. In article <8840087@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> wlw@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Will Walker) writes:
  13. >Quite right, SPECfp92 is not very sensitive to divide or square root
  14. >latency.  Which applications are?  
  15.  
  16. The benchmark 048.ora in SPECfp92 is very sensitive to the latency of
  17. sqrt. 
  18.  
  19. Vinod Grover
  20.