uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun) (08/12/90)
A couple of more real world benchmarks for the Amiga 3000, compiled with Lattice C 5.10 using inline 882 code 030 option on, longword alignment and forcing rounding of 882 to extended precision, nearest (this is faster than the default double prec rounding) Linpacks (double precision) .214 MFlops Livermore Loops (dbl prec) .232 MFlops Looking at the BEST performing 25 Mhz 387 machine under SCO Xenix/Unix from June 1990 Personal Workstation, page 62 Linpack = .239 and Livermore loops = .250 So the BEST 25 Mhz 387 performs virtually identically to the Amiga 3000 in double precision fp tests. I have written a small disk test using unix open(), read(), write(), but results out the Amiga 3000 SO FAR in front of the DOS machine with a 40M IDE Conner drive, I feel there must be a problem with the Turbo-C read() write() library calls. I mean is my Amiga 3000 really over 25 times faster than a 20 Mhz DOS machine? It feels about that much faster and the benchmark indicates that it is, but I hesitate to post anything here until I can get a better C compiler for the MS-DOS machine. -Roger UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd ucsd nosc}!crash!pnet01!uzun ARPA: crash!pnet01!uzun@nosc.mil INET: uzun@pnet01.cts.com
hclausen@adspdk.CBMNET (Henrik Clausen) (08/12/90)
>In article <3902@crash.cts.com> uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes: >I have written a small disk test using unix open(), read(), write(), >but results out the Amiga 3000 SO FAR in front of the DOS machine >with a 40M IDE Conner drive, I feel there must be a problem with the >Turbo-C read() write() library calls. I mean is my Amiga 3000 really >over 25 times faster than a 20 Mhz DOS machine? The file system in MS-DOS is about as fast as our Old File System. IBM recently created a High Performance File System under OS/2 (half an OS), similar to our FFS. A factor of twenty sounds reasonable - why do you think the PC people always quote access times rather than transfer rates? -Henrik -- | Henrik Clausen, Graffiti Data (Fido: 2:230/22.33) | | ...{pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmehq!adspdk!hclausen | \__"Do not accept the heart that is the slave to reason" - Qawwali trad__/