chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (07/01/88)
>In article <12179@mimsy.UUCP> I claimed that >>... the fastest Vax CPU from DEC is slower than the fastest 88000 CPU >>from Motorola. In article <2476@winchester.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) asks: >On what set of benchmarks is this assertion based? Actually, none, and thus, like all generalisations (especially this one :-) ) it is false. >(I believe it's true for integer and single-precision FP, and if you'd >said MIPS, it would have been true for DP floating also :-) I was thinking integer; most of our (CS department) cycles are spent doing integer computation (unlike the EE department, where end-of-semester crunches are almost all DP float). -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris