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Article #21879Re: Integer Multiply/Divide on Sparc
From: Robert D. Silverman
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1989 02:55
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1989 02:55
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In article <34019@mips.mips.COM> mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) writes:
:In article <435@berlioz.nsc.com> andrew@dtg.nsc.com (Andrew Palfreyman) writes:
: >I am reading this thread with interest, and would like to see some realistic
: >numbers on SPARC performance. How does it perform on, say, a large CAD
: >package compared with the Sun-3? - does anyone have any benchmark results?
: >
:One large CAD package is "SPICE2G6" from U.C. Berkeley. It's a circuit
:simulator. Here are measurements of a Sun3 and a Sun4, both running
I may be wrong but.....
So far as I know [and I've seen the code] SPICE is not a heavy user
of integer multiply/divides. It does use a fair amount of floating
point. Therefore, trying to get a measure of integer multiply/divide
performance using SPICE is grasping at straws at best.
--
Bob Silverman
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!snorkelwacker!spdcc!merk!alliant!linus!bs From: bs@linus.UUCP (Robert D. Silverman) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Integer Multiply/Divide on Sparc Message-ID: <85204@linus.UUCP> Date: 30 Dec 89 02:55:44 GMT References: <84768@linus.UUCP> <8840004@hpfcso.HP.COM> <84983@linus.UUCP> <34000@mips.mips.COM> <435@berlioz.nsc.com> <34019@mips.mips.COM> Reply-To: bs@linus.UUCP (Robert D. Silverman) Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA Lines: 21