At 12:54 PM 10/12/99 +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
>"John R Pierce" wrote:
>
> > a year on one of these [a vax] wouldn't equal one day on a pentium-II.
>
>Probably a bit generous there even, given that older vaxen wouldn't
>have pipelined FPU's so you might get one result every 10 (or perhaps
>even 100) clocks, as opposed to one result almost every clock on modern
>hardware.
In his book "Programming Pearls", Jon Bentley gives the figure of 570
seconds for sorting 10,000 integers on a VAX-11/750. My PII-300 does it
1160 times faster and my C-400 is 1780 times faster. But that is comparing
working with integers instead of FP.
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