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Subject: Re: Reply to Rajen Gupta re: 64 bit

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 23:11:08 07/24/03

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On July 25, 2003 at 01:52:26, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>Nonsense. Dhrystone MIPS:
>
>4MHz Z80: 0.052
>4.77MHz 8088: 0.23
>8MHz 8086: 0.44
>
>http://www.netlib.org/performance/html/dhrystone.data.col0.html
>
>So the 8088 performed 4.5x faster than the Z80 and it looks to be only about 12%
>slower than the 8086 per MHz.

If you ignore external memory access, then an 8088 should perform exactly the
same as an 8086...

"Problems: Due to its small size (100 HLL statements, 1-1.5 KB code), the memory
system outside the cache is not tested"

http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/dhrystone.intro.html



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