whetstone benchmark of cp/m z80 emulator

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From: LINDAHL
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1987 04:06

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Date:     Sat, 17 Jan 87 22:55 EST
From:     <LINDAHL@BRANDEIS.BITNET>
Subject:  whetstone benchmark of cp/m z80 emulator
To:       info-atari16@score.stanford.edu
X-Original-To:  info-atari16@score.stanford.edu, LINDAHL

i always wondered how fast the public domain z80 emulator really was, and now
i know. i ran the whetstone benchmark (taken from byte magazine) on the
emulator using turbo pascal. the result was:

  machine           compiler    whetstones/sec (approximate)
----------------------------------------------
  sbc S-100       turbo pascal      4,000
  atari st (z80)  turbo pascal        465
  atari st        absoft fortran   55,000

however, i also found that turbo pascal can compile and link a short program
about 6 times faster than alcyon C. strange, isn't it?

greg lindahl

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