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Article #2834Re: specmarks
From: Michael Meissner
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1989 21:21
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1989 21:21
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In article <4420015@hpihoah.HP.COM> fotland@hpihoah.HP.COM (David Fotland) writes: | You could define an architectural figure of merit as Specmark/Clock freq. | | A higher value indicates that this architecture gets more performance for the | same clock frequency. I calculate: ... (various machines left out) | This seems to clearly show the advantage of RISC over 68K type machines. I | think it also seems to show the disadvantage of register windows, since | PRISM, MIPS, and PA don't have them and SPARC and 88K have them. Huh? The 88K DOES NOT have register windows. Maybe you were thinking of the AMD2900? -- Michael Meissner, Data General. If compiles where much Uucp: ...!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!meissner faster, when would we Internet: meissner@dg-rtp.DG.COM have time for netnews?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!ginosko!xanth!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!meissner From: meissner@dg-rtp.dg.com (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: specmarks Message-ID: <MEISSNER.89Oct25172147@twohot.rtp.dg.com> Date: 25 Oct 89 21:21:47 GMT References: <327@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl> <4420015@hpihoah.HP.COM> Sender: usenet@xyzzy.UUCP Organization: Data General (Languages @ Research Triangle Park, NC.) Lines: 20 In-reply-to: fotland@hpihoah.HP.COM's message of 24 Oct 89 17:01:15 GMT