dibble@rochester.UUCP (Peter C. Dibble) (08/12/85)
I made an error in my previous posting on this subject. I quoted times for a Mizar 68010 system. The Mizar actually has a 68000 running at 10MHz. I promised results on the knights tour benchmark. Here they are: Knight's tour on a 6x6 board: 68020 (12.5 MHz with one wait state): 1 min 23 sec 68000 (10 MHz) 4 min. 54 sec. 6809 (2 MHz) ~ 10 min. I'm not willing to wait for a time for the 7x7 board on my 6809, but here are the results for the other processors: 68020 42 min 19 sec 68000 2 Hours 28 min. The benchmark was taken off this net (or maybe net.micro). I am sure the tour (and the other benchmarks in my last posting) could have been made faster by using more register variables. Both 680x0 times were from identical object code. All tests use OS-9 and Microware C.