[comp.benchmarks] Byte benchmark of a Sun 2/120

swiers@plains.NoDak.edu (Mike Swiers ) (03/12/91)

Start Benchmark Run (BYTE Version 2.6)
  Mon Mar 11 12:38:33 CST 1991 
  0 interactive users.
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Dhrystone 2 without register variables
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                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (6 tests)
Microseconds/loop:            1040             1040              0.67
Dhrystones/sec:                962              962              0.60

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Dhrystone 2 using register variables
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                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (6 tests)
Microseconds/loop:             939              939              1.07
Dhrystones/sec:               1065             1065              1.41

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Arithmetic Test (type = arithoh): 10000 Iterations
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                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (6 tests)
User Time (secs):             6.60             6.60              0.00
System Time (secs):           0.10             0.10              0.00
Real Time (secs):             6.83             6.83              0.00

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Arithmetic Test (type = register): 10000 Iterations
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                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (6 tests)
User Time (secs):            52.58            52.58              0.00
System Time (secs):           0.10             0.10              0.00
Real Time (secs):            52.80            52.80              0.00

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Arithmetic Test (type = short): 10000 Iterations
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                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (6 tests)
User Time (secs):            47.50            47.50              0.00
System Time (secs):           0.10             0.10              0.00
Real Time (secs):            47.70            47.70              0.00

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Arithmetic Test (type = int): 10000 Iterations
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                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (6 tests)
User Time (secs):            58.07            58.07              0.00
System Time (secs):           0.07             0.00              0.00
Real Time (secs):            58.30            58.30              0.00

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Arithmetic Test (type = long): 10000 Iterations
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                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (6 tests)
User Time (secs):            58.07            58.07              0.00
System Time (secs):           0.10             0.10              0.00
Real Time (secs):            58.30            58.30              0.00

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Arithmetic Test (type = float): 10000 Iterations
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                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (6 tests)
User Time (secs):          1022.70          1022.70              0.16
System Time (secs):           0.10             0.10              0.00
Real Time (secs):          1023.07          1023.07              0.17

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Arithmetic Test (type = double): 10000 Iterations
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                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (6 tests)
User Time (secs):           886.07           886.07              0.06
System Time (secs):           0.10             0.10              0.00
Real Time (secs):           886.38           886.38              0.07

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System Call Overhead Test: 5 x 4000 Calls
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                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (6 tests)
User Time (secs):             0.70             0.70              0.01
System Time (secs):           4.60             4.60              0.01
Real Time (secs):             5.50             5.50              0.00

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Pipe Throughput Test: read & write 2048 x 512 byte blocks
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                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (6 tests)
User Time (secs):             0.12             0.11              0.00
System Time (secs):          10.48            10.48              0.00
Real Time (secs):            10.80            10.80              0.00

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Pipe-based Context Switching Test: 2 x 500 Switches
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                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (6 tests)
User Time (secs):             0.02             0.00              0.00
System Time (secs):           1.13             1.13              0.01
Real Time (secs):             2.50             2.50              0.00

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Process Creation Test: 100 forks
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                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (6 tests)
User Time (secs):             0.07             0.00              0.00
System Time (secs):           3.35             3.35              0.00
Real Time (secs):             3.58             3.58              0.00

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Execl Throughput Test: 100 execs
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                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (6 tests)
User Time (secs):             0.08             0.00              0.01
System Time (secs):          14.00            14.00              0.01
Real Time (secs):            22.50            22.50              0.00

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Filesystem Throughput Test:
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Test Time: 1 secs
                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (6 tests)
Read (Kbytes/sec):               80               80             66.67
Write (Kbytes/sec):              79               79             66.67
Copy (Kbytes/sec):               75               74             37.50
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Test Time: 10 secs
                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (6 tests)
Read (Kbytes/sec):              180              180              0.27
Write (Kbytes/sec):             180              180              0.27
Copy (Kbytes/sec):              101              101              0.27
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Test Time: 20 secs
                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (6 tests)
Read (Kbytes/sec):              185              185              0.17
Write (Kbytes/sec):             185              185              0.17
Copy (Kbytes/sec):               97               96            130.27

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Bourne shell script and Unix utilities
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1 concurrent background processes
                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (3 tests)
User Time (secs):            21.43            21.43              0.01
System Time (secs):           4.83             4.83              0.04
Real Time (secs):            38.13            38.13              0.17
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2 concurrent background processes
                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (3 tests)
User Time (secs):            28.43            28.43              0.04
System Time (secs):           6.63             6.63              0.05
Real Time (secs):            50.57            50.57              0.00
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4 concurrent background processes
                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (3 tests)
User Time (secs):            43.30            43.30              0.01
System Time (secs):          10.07            10.07              0.00
Real Time (secs):            77.07            77.07              0.01
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8 concurrent background processes
                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (3 tests)
User Time (secs):            77.03            77.03              0.00
System Time (secs):          18.13            18.13              0.04
Real Time (secs):           135.00           135.00              0.04

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Arithmetic Test (sqrt(2) with dc to 99 decimal places)
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Recursion Test: Tower of Hanoi Problem
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17 Disk Problem:
                       Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
                              Mean             Mean         (6 tests)
User Time (secs):             6.60             6.60              0.00
System Time (secs):           0.10             0.10              0.00
Real Time (secs):             6.90             6.90              0.00

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End Benchmark Run (Mon Mar 11 12:38:33 CST 1991) ....
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tim@proton.amd.com (Tim Olson) (03/13/91)

In article <8816@plains.NoDak.edu> swiers@plains.NoDak.edu (Mike Swiers ) writes:

| =============================================================================
| Arithmetic Test (type = register): 10000 Iterations
| -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|                        Arithmetric        Geometric         Variance
|                               Mean             Mean         (6 tests)
| User Time (secs):            52.58            52.58              0.00
| System Time (secs):           0.10             0.10              0.00
| Real Time (secs):            52.80            52.80              0.00

Be aware that the Arithmetic Test in the Byte benchmark simply
performs 1 operation each of +, -, *, and / in a loop, weighing each
operation type equally.  In "typical" code, however, they should be
weighted more like 55% add, 34% sub, 10% mul, 1% div. Also, since
integer multiply and divide are usually an order of magnitude slower
than addition or subtraction, this benchmark ends up mainly reporting
the performance of these slower, less-used operations.
--
	-- Tim Olson
	Advanced Micro Devices
	(tim@amd.com)