BENCHMARKS (Byte's) 368 vs 486 comp.

[Doug Ingraham]

In article <18136 at rpp386.cactus.org>, jfh at rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
> I agree.  At the 1988 USENIX Winter conference in Dallas [ I think that
> is the right year - it's the one I went to in Dallas ;-) ] there was a
> 20 or 25 MHz Compaq using the Greenhill's C compiler producing about 9KDhry.
> 
> The Greenhills compilers have always impressed me and I do plainly recall
> that this particular Compaq was running about 2KDhry faster than what
> everyone else was showing.

This must have been with the old dhrystone benchmark.  I remember getting
amazing numbers with that compiler on that test.  The old dhry benchmark
had a couple of problems that allowed portions of the test to be optimized
away if the compiler was clever enough.  The Greenhills compiler had the
ability to do that particular optimization.  As it turns out most programs
don't have enough useless code that it makes a difference.  The Greenhills
compiler just wouldn't compile some programs without lots of diddling with
source.  I decided not to use it because of this.

I will see if I can find a copy and run the new dhry2 with the compilers
I have at hand if there is any interest.

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