At 03:02 AM 11/11/2001 -0500, James Mastros wrote: >On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Leon Brocard wrote: > > mops.pasm uses a very simple loop to figure out how many operations a > > second parrot can go. However, the loop it uses is inefficient: it > > does a "branch" *and* an "eq" every time around. > > > mops.pasm: 11.713909 > > ./mops: 108.442655 > > > > mops.pasm: 10.647256 > > ./mops: 73.574232 > > > > Of course, the benchmark could be improved, but I suggest we should at > > least change it to be good, tight code ;-) >Perhaps it's just too late at night, but if this cange makes it better, >tighter code, shouldn't it make the MOPS numbers look better, not worse?
Does someone want to maybe cook up a more reasonable benchmark? MOPS is just a quick toss-off program, after all. Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk