kent@ncoast.UUCP (Kent Williams) (05/01/87)
For those of you who are members of the 'Compiler of the Month Club' for PC's, here are the results of the dhrystone tests for a few compilers. I just got Datalight's Optimum C - hence the tests. Test Conditions Aztec C86 3.4B C86 Microsoft C 4.0 Datalight Optimum C 3.05 All compilers set for small data, small code, .exe format, no 'EXEPACK.' Maximum optimization selected for all compilers. Testing done on an IBM AT (bad old model) with 8 MHZ clock. Benchmark Results : aztec 500000 p 308 t 1623 dps elapsed time = 315.65681 microsoft 500000 p 283 t 1766 dps elapsed time = 292.313475 datalight 500000 p 242 t 2066 dps elapsed time = 258.094893 File sizes -rw--a 6128 May 01 07:59 aztdry.exe -rw--a 15232 May 01 07:59 dlcdry.exe -rw--a 9432 May 01 07:56 mscdry.exe Nice Work Mr. Bright. 'You know that the hypnotized never lie' Kent Williams ...!cwruecmp!ncoast