[comp.sys.atari.st] typo in flops results table.

COBB@BRANDEIS.BITNET.UUCP (04/23/87)

Date:     Thu, 23 Apr 87 14:21 EDT
From:     <COBB@BRANDEIS.BITNET> (wes cobb [ cobb@brandeis.bitnet ])
Subject:  typo in flops results table.
To:       info-atari16@score.stanford.edu
X-Original-To:  atari16, COBB

butterfingers!  there was a typo in the results table ( obviously one
cannot have a 53 bit mantissa and a 32 bit size! )... here is the corrected
table of results as of 23 april 1987.

                            THE FLOPS BENCHMARK

machine     language    os    rating   cpu-time  mant  size  % error  notes
----------  ----------  --- ---------  --------  ----  ----  -------  -------
atari/st    absoft f77  tos    11,453    153.70   24    32   8.4e-2   1,2
atari/st    absoft f77  tos     6,223    282.80   53    64   1.6e-10  1,2
sun 2       sun-c       unix    5,114    344.10   53    64   3.5e-10  7
atari/st    megamax c   tos     3,659    480.95   24    32   2.7e-3   1,3
atari/st    megamax c   tos     1,352   1301.34   53    64   3.4e-10  1,4
atari/st    lattice c   tos     1,227   1433.99   54    64   3.5e-12  1,5
atari/st    basic       tos       607   2899.19   24   (32)  1.3e-3   1,6
----------  ----------  --- ---------  --------  ----  ----  -------  -------

notes:
      1.  68000 at 8 MHz.  1 meg ram.  no fpa.  no desk accs.  med rez.
      2.  absoft fortran v2.2 ( dynamically linked )
      3.  megamax c v1.00 ( fmath.o )
      4.  megamax c v1.00 ( double.o )
      5.  lattice c v3.02 ( doesnt support single precision )
      6.  atari basic ( i ASSUME 32 bits here... manual doesnt say )
      7.  68010 at 10 MHz.  4 meg ram.  no fpa.