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From: neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene)
Subject: Benchmarks (mac, NeXT, Sparc)
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Organization: University of Kentucky, Dept. Math Sciences 
Date:  1 Apr 91 15:12:05 GMT
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Comparison of performance

Article By: 

NeXTWorld - April 1991

Edward Jung is the program manager for the information at Your Fingertips
Projec
t at Microsoft Corporation and a pricipal of the Deep Thought Group L.P., a
neur
al network research and development group.

Bruce F. Webster is author of The NeXT Book and vice president of reserch and
de
velopment at Pages, a software company in San Diego, California.


Benchmark (count)       NeXT    Mac IIfx        NeXT    SPARCstation 2
                        ('030)                  ('040)

Sieve   (1000)          39.5    19.9            15.6    7.3
Sort    (2000)          24.5    11.7            9.5     4.9
Matrix  (50)            39.0    25.1            16.4    5.8
Float   (10,000)        9.4     12.2            6.4     3.4
Savage  (20,000)        29.7    12.3            24.7    5.6
Circle  (500)           28.9    7.5             9.3     --
Square  (1000)          28.8    14.9            14.9    --
Dhrystone2              5,451   9,011           22,727  34,884

Compilers
Macintosh IIfx: cc -mc68020 -mc6881 -elems881 -opt full -opt speed
SPARCstation 2: cc -O4 (Sun C)
NeXT systems: cc -O (Objective C 2.0, from FNU cc version 1.36)

-- 
Neil Greene ---	University of Kentucky Mathmatics and Sciences
		University of Kentucky Computing Center 

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