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Re: 486 performance

#178
From: Kirk Hays
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 23:26
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In article <1992Aug4.205351.3073@unixland.natick.ma.us>, scott@unixland.natick.ma.us (Scott Evernden) writes:
|> In article <12674@inews.intel.com> jwreilly@mipos2.UUCP (Jeffrey Reilly) writes:
|> >In article <MeTM3Ry00VolQH2VFv@andrew.cmu.edu> cw1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Chi-Tai (Frank) Wu) writes:
|> >
|> >On a 33MHz i486DX CPU system with 32MB of RAM and 256KB of cache:
|> >
|> >Dhrystone1.1 VAX MIPS: 27.6
|> >Dhrystone2.1 VAX MIPS: 26.3
|> 
|> Amazing.  When the 486/33 arrived, I remember the approx number being
|> 15 mips.  Then Intel began insisting it was 21 mips.  Now I see it's
|> evolved upwards again.
|> 
|> This is encouraging.  If I just wait, my machine will eventually hit
|> 100 mips and it won't cost me anything at all!

You have, of course, continued to invest in the newer compiler technology that
makes such improvements possible...

...haven't you?

I don't speak for Intel.

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