Benchmarks

[Keith Bierman fpgroup]

In article <1991Jan9.191443.4903 at cec1.wustl.edu> berkley at wucs1.wustl.edu (Berkley Shands) writes:


   The SPARC machines used an aproximate square-root. All others used the standard
   system call. This is equivalent to a 20% speedup on SPARC machines.

Could you explain this ? SPARC machines (post the 4/110, 4/2xx) have
hw sqrt.... perhaps you neglected to specify -cg89 -libmil (or
equivalent) in your runs.
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