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- From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: Alpha benchmarks
- Keywords: alpha, benchmarks
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.115706.5652@cl.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 11:57:06 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.160844.2486@nosc.mil> <1992Aug13.093121.4012@rdg.dec.com>
- Sender: news@cl.cam.ac.uk (The news facility)
- Reply-To: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
- Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1992Aug13.093121.4012@rdg.dec.com> evansg@uproar.enet.dec.com (Gwyn Evans @ IME) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Aug12.160844.2486@nosc.mil>, lem@nosc.mil (Lemuel L. Davis)
- >writes:
- >>Has anyone run or had DEC run any becnhmarks on Alpha systems?
- >
- > I was under the inpression that the users of Alpha porting machines
- >had to sign agreements that they would _not_ run any benchmarks, as the
- >machines that were being shipped were not representitive of the final
- >configuration.
-
- They sure said to me "please don't run any benchmarks" (NB, I'm no
- longer in that job, so don't have access to the bits of paper).
-
- Given the nature of the request, my assumption was that they (a)
- thought it would be useless anyway, and (b) would tip a ton of bricks
- over the company (under our non-disclosure agreements) if we published
- anything about results.
-
- > Things such as compilers & microcode being optimised for
- ^^^^^^^^^
- >ease of debugging, the OS & libraries built with debug, etc, etc.
-
- _MICROCODE_???? On an ALPHA???
-
- > Human nature being what it is, I'd expect that your benchmarks come
- >from such a machine. Would you care to post the details, i.e. where and
- >who they come from and what tests were run?
-
- yeah... Drop them in the mire....
- --
- Robin (dump Brian Kay) Fairbairns, using the facilities of the U of
- Cambridge Computer Lab, for which permission is gratefully acknowledged.
- [Wonderful what a few job offers can do for one's self-esteem :-]
-