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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
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- Subject: Re: Is it Sunset yet?!?!
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- Date: 7 Jan 93 03:05:40 GMT
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- >Having the January 1993 BYTE almost in front of me... there is an
- >ad from Sun showing their SPARCstation LX at 59 mips. I know! I
- >know! I know! Mips are meaningless... but still... can be really
- >impressive!
-
- Maybe, maybe not. Those are, I think, Dhrystone MIPS; the SPEC92
- numbers for the LX and Classic are closer to those for the SS2. I'm
- curious whether Dhrystone is multiply-intensive or divide-intensive, in
- which case the microSPARC may be faster because it has multiply and
- divide instructions that run faster than the software version, or
- whether it's due to compiler differences, or library differences, or
- what.
-