Risc System/6000

[Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages]

In article <1990Feb21.012432.22401 at ico.isc.com> rcd at ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:

...
   Then there's the business of reporting Dhrystone 1.1 numbers.  That's just
   a disgrace.

....

Far be it from me to defend IBM; but dhrystone 1.1 is what many of the
chip houses still use for quoting. Thus many marketing departments
feel obligated to use it. Also, the kinder gentler compiler groups
carefully detune the optimizer to make the benchmark not disappear.

IBM was quite good about reporting SPEC numbers, and complete postings
of such can be found in comp.arch.

cheers 'all
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