[comp.sys.transputer] Transputer benchmarks?

moskowit@paul.rutgers.edu (Len Moskowitz) (07/17/90)

Does anyone have relative performance figures for the various
transputers and the 68030/68040, 88100/88200, and i860/i960
processors?  I'm more interested in integer math, logical operations,
and memory access performance than floating point math or array
operations.

iann@specialix.co.uk (Ian Nandhra) (07/17/90)

moskowit@paul.rutgers.edu (Len Moskowitz) writes:


>Does anyone have relative performance figures for the various
>transputers and the 68030/68040, 88100/88200, and i860/i960
>processors?  I'm more interested in integer math, logical operations,
>and memory access performance than floating point math or array
>operations.

The trouble is that the instruction sets will not allow 
a meaningful comparison. What type are  you after. VAX MIP's 
comparisons are often quoted (OK, not by Inmos!!).

Ian.


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moskowit@paul.rutgers.edu (Len Moskowitz) (07/17/90)

I'd be happy to hear of any reasonable yeardstick with which I could
compare them.  If anyone has run a task on these machines using
commonly used compilers and without substantial optimization, I'd
appreciate hearing the relative performance results.

If I had to boil my question down it'd go like this:

"Can a single transputer (any model) run my typical C application
significantly (say four or more times) faster than my 20
megaHertz 68030?"