LINDAHL@brandeis.BITNET (01/18/87)
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 87 22:55 EST From: <LINDAHL@BRANDEIS.BITNET> Subject: whetstone benchmark of cp/m z80 emulator To: info-atari16@score.stanford.edu X-Original-To: info-atari16@score.stanford.edu, LINDAHL i always wondered how fast the public domain z80 emulator really was, and now i know. i ran the whetstone benchmark (taken from byte magazine) on the emulator using turbo pascal. the result was: machine compiler whetstones/sec (approximate) ---------------------------------------------- sbc S-100 turbo pascal 4,000 atari st (z80) turbo pascal 465 atari st absoft fortran 55,000 however, i also found that turbo pascal can compile and link a short program about 6 times faster than alcyon C. strange, isn't it? greg lindahl bitnet: lindahl@brandeis.bitnet ci$: [76515,1122] [NSA CIA Cray hackey-sack tie-dye divestment radical civil disobedience Thoreau Locke Hobbes flower-power frisbee physics star wars Teller long hair vegetarians 'and to think that MY tax dollars pay for this!']