Rumour about IBM benchmarks

David Haynes david at torsqnt.UUCP
Fri Sep 14 07:18:01 AEST 1990


I have heard a rumour that the benchmark results that IBM posted for
their RS6000 system were the results of hand-coded, hand-optimized
assembler coding rather than the result of compiling C or FORTRAN
code. Can anyone confirm or deny this? 

-david-
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