[comp.os.minix] Dhrystone @ VAX 8800

tomiak@vax.hmi.dbp.de (Andreas Tomiak) (10/05/89)

Hello MINIX-World,

here are results from a VAX 8800 under VMS 5.1 and VAX-C. The source
was compiled without any changes.

Dhrystone(1.1) time for 50000 passes = 7
This machine benchmarks at 7142 dhrystones/second

The following result comes from the Dhrystone benchmark enclosed
in the MINIX-sources (directory /usr/src/test), on the same vax

Dhrystone(1.1) time for 500000 passes = 33
This machine benchmarks at 15151 dhrystones/second

(I am only a simple user with no special privileges an an low priority)

Has anyone an idea about the difference (about factor 2) ?


The values for MINIX-ST 1.1 are (dhrystone from /usr/src/test):

Dhrystone(1.1) time for 50000 passes = 96
This machine benchmarks at 520 dhrystones/second

With an 68020-Enhancement-board (PAK-68 from c't) dhrystone is
about 10% faster due to the influence of its cache memory and
the optimized instruction times.

Andreas Tomiak
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