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>From the SpecInt92 results, one should expect a performance increase
>of about a factor of 2 when switching from a SS2 to either s SS10-30
>or HP720. Unfortunately, on both machines turned out to but just
>30% faster than a SS2 when running our system (for which ps NEVER
>shows a resident set under 3-4 MB, not even on an 8MB machine).

Just out of curiosity, does the HP machine have a write-through or a
write-back cache?  I've seen some cases where cache-buster programs
run better on machines with a write-through cache than on machines with
a write-back cache; your LISP interpreter+application may be such a
program.  The SS2 has a write-through cache, and the SS10 has, I think, a
write-back data cache.  (The SS10-30's caches are, when combined,
smaller than the SS2's cache - 20K Icache + 16K Dcache, vs. 64K combined
cache; how large is the HP's cache?)