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- From: newton@cs.utexas.edu (Peter Newton)
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- Subject: Re: Speedometer ratings for the current Macs
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 12:02:52 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- >> LC 3
- >> Performa 400 = LC II 4
- >Strange, i thought the LC and the LCII had almost the same performance
- >(MacUser Benchmarks). After all, the LCII has only one advantage, the
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- I think that the 68020 and the 68030 do not have identical on chip cache
- configurations. If I recall, the 030 adds a tiny data cache to the tiny
- I-cache that is already present on the 020. I guess a cache sensitive
- benchmark could pick it up. Most real apps do not appear to be sensitive
- in this way.
-
- Does anyone know what the CPU benchmark in speedometer really does? Is it
- just some tiny loop?
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- Peter Newton (newton@cs.utexas.edu)
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