Need 286 "C" benchmark

[Tim Kelley]

This is yet another comment on the fairness of benchmarks using >64k
data on the *86 chips. I do this on IBM-PC/AT's every day for floating
point work. Most of my data consists of matrices of doubles. I have
coded things like dot products and daxpys in assembler, and observe
that the penealty for using the large model is very small. For problems
for which both models can be used, the large model code is about 5%
slower if written correctly. However, the real limit is the 1meg that
one can use without going to protected mode. This is often a real pain.
	I run MS-DOS (not XENIX) and don't use protected mode. Does anyone
know what the speed penalty for using protected mode is? Looks like a
lot. I am not defending Intel, having to fool around with segments is
a waste of time. However, where was a system that worked with hardware
floats for <$3000 three years ago (hint: IBM).


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