Re: 486 performance

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From: Richard Krehbiel
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 04:09

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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 could be the result of improving compiler technology.

>This is encouraging.  If I just wait, my machine will eventually hit
>100 mips and it won't cost me anything at all!

This is theoretically possible, especially if Dhrystone 1.1 continues
to be used as a benchmark...
-- 
Richard Krehbiel                                 richk@grebyn.com
OS/2 2.0 will do for me until AmigaDOS for the 386 comes along...

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From: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
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Subject: Re: 486 performance
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Date: 5 Aug 92 04:09:09 GMT
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