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  1. Newsgroups: comp.dsp
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!oakhill!jeff
  3. From: jeff@dsp.sps.mot.com (Jeff Enderwick)
  4. Subject: Re: Linpack benchmark numbers for dsp chips
  5. In-Reply-To: apollo@ecf.toronto.edu's message of 8 Sep 92 17:06:30 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <JEFF.92Sep11100457@dsp.sps.mot.com>
  7. Sender: news@oakhill.sps.mot.com
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: 223.10.249.92
  9. Organization: Motorola DSP Compilers
  10. References: <Bu9rIv.Bu5@ecf.toronto.edu>
  11. Date: 11 Sep 92 10:04:57
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  14. > subject header says it all. [...] the motorola 56K line numbers
  15. > would be of interest as well.
  16.  
  17. Although floaing point numbers are supported by the 56k C compiler,
  18. Linpack wouldn't be a very good benchmark for fixed point processors,
  19. IMHO. Linpack performance is dominated by floating point performance.
  20. Can you give us some insight?
  21.  
  22.     Jeff Enderwick
  23.     jeff@dsp.sps.mot.com
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