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Post #7 by Gorgonops
Source Forum68kMLA
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Post DateMon, 5 Mar 2012 - 19:46
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/dhrystone-for-68k-macintosh.24799/
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An IBM PS/2 Model 56 gets about 5900 it seems
Is it a 386SLC or a 486SLC model? The 486SLC(2) was actually a pretty potent CPU, at least on benchmarks. Integer-based 'marks small enough to fit into cache scored almost in the same ballpark as a real 80486. Granted that's the most useless kind of benchmark for determining real system performance, but... that's what Dhrystone is all about!

(The *stupid* thing about that CPU was of course its 24 bit address bus. The 386sx sort of made sense in 1988, not so much in 1992.)

Speaking of useless benchmarks, I screenshotted the OP's program results alongside Speedometer 4.0's running in BasiliskII on my Opteron:

Dhrystones-Bas.jpg

They come out in the same ballpark although the actual result varies quite a lot from run to run, undoubtedly a consequence of the JIT compiler rather than anything to do with the program. It is mildly impressive to some degree that the emulated performance in some runs is close to 1/10th that of Dhrystone running natively, I guess.

(This is a recently built-from-source Basilisk II binary which seems to be both wickedly fast and wickedly unstable. The 2.8Ghz Opteron is scoring over twice what a 2.0 Ghz Mac Pro scored in Speedo-4.0 using an older binary dating from when BasiliskII was in the Ubuntu package collection, and I *know* the 2.8Ghz Opt isn't that much faster than the M'Pro.)

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