Re: Alpha Architecture Quirks

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From: Dileep Bhandarkar
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:03

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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.

The ora benchmark in cfp92 is very sensitive to the speed of square root.

/d

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