BENCHMARKS (Byte's) 368 vs 486 comp.

[John F. Haugh II]

In article <1990Mar11.223447.5645 at rand.org> edhall at ives.UUCP (Ed Hall) writes:
>These still seem low.  On a no-name, UNcached, UNinterleaved 25MHz 386
>I get a consistant 7085 with registers, 6825 without (+/- 15 or so).
>This is with ISC 2.01 and pcc.

I agree.  At the 1988 USENIX Winter conference in Dallas [ I think that
is the right year - it's the one I went to in Dallas ;-) ] there was a
20 or 25 MHz Compaq using the Greenhill's C compiler producing about 9KDhry.

The Greenhills compilers have always impressed me and I do plainly recall
that this particular Compaq was running about 2KDhry faster than what
everyone else was showing.

Does anyone remember that booth?  I don't remember whether it was Compaq
peddling their wares or whether it was Greenhills.
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