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Date: Sun 01-Apr-1991 15:12:05 From: neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene) Subject: Benchmarks (mac, NeXT, Sparc) Comparison of performance Article By: NeXTWorld - April 1991 Edward Jung is the program manager for the information at Your Fingertips Projec t at Microsoft Corporation and a pricipal of the Deep Thought Group L.P., a neur al network research and development group. Bruce F. Webster is author of The NeXT Book and vice president of reserch and de velopment at Pages, a software company in San Diego, California. Benchmark (count) NeXT Mac IIfx NeXT SPARCstation 2 ('030) ('040) Sieve (1000) 39.5 19.9 15.6 7.3 Sort (2000) 24.5 11.7 9.5 4.9 Matrix (50) 39.0 25.1 16.4 5.8 Float (10,000) 9.4 12.2 6.4 3.4 Savage (20,000) 29.7 12.3 24.7 5.6 Circle (500) 28.9 7.5 9.3 -- Square (1000) 28.8 14.9 14.9 -- Dhrystone2 5,451 9,011 22,727 34,884 Compilers Macintosh IIfx: cc -mc68020 -mc6881 -elems881 -opt full -opt speed SPARCstation 2: cc -O4 (Sun C) NeXT systems: cc -O (Objective C 2.0, from FNU cc version 1.36)
Date: Sun 04-Apr-1991 01:49:41 From: victor@tesla.math.yale.edu (Mladen Victor Wickerhauser) Subject: Re: Benchmarks (mac, NeXT, Sparc) In article <neil.670518725@s.ms.uky.edu> neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene) writes: >Comparison of performance [comparison deleted] >Compilers >Macintosh IIfx: cc -mc68020 -mc6881 -elems881 -opt full -opt speed >SPARCstation 2: cc -O4 (Sun C) >NeXT systems: cc -O (Objective C 2.0, from FNU cc version 1.36) According to the GNU C-compiler info, it is more efficient to use cc -O -g ...., since the debugging information (-g) helps the optimizer make certain heuristic choices. >-- >Neil Greene --- University of Kentucky Mathmatics and Sciences > University of Kentucky Computing Center > >neil@graphlab.cc.uky.edu [NeXT Attachments] From a satisfied customer of both SUN and NeXT....
Date: Sun 04-Apr-1991 19:46:06 From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Subject: Re: Benchmarks (mac, NeXT, Sparc) In article <29847@cs.yale.edu> victor@tesla.math.yale.edu (Mladen Victor Wickerhauser) writes: According to the GNU C-compiler info, it is more efficient to use cc -O -g ...., since the debugging information (-g) helps the optimizer make certain heuristic choices. Where does it say this? -Mike
Date: Sun 06-Apr-1991 11:50:13 From: m.tiernan@pro-angmar.UUCP (Michael Tiernan) Subject: Re: Benchmarks (mac, NeXT, Sparc) Is there a source code set for these benchmarks available? I'd like to run them on my UNIX box and see what they give. << MCT >> GEnie : M.Tiernan AppleLinkPE : M Tiernan or BCS Mike Internet : pro-angmar!m.tiernan@alfalfa.com UUCP : ...!uunet!alfalfa!pro-angmar!m.tiernan "God isn't dead, he's only missing in action." - Phil Ochs
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