Speed test (results from first test)

[Charles Steinkuehler]

The results from one of my 500 MHz Alphas:

[root at berryton nbench-byte-2.1]# ./nbench

BYTEmark* Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
Index-split by Andrew D. Balsa (11/97)
Linux/Unix* port by Uwe F. Mayer (12/96,11/97)

TEST                : Iterations/sec.  : Old Index   : New Index
                     :                  : Pentium 90* : AMD K6/233*
--------------------:------------------:-------------:------------
NUMERIC SORT        :          257.05  :       6.59  :       2.16
STRING SORT         :          23.375  :      10.44  :       1.62
BITFIELD            :      5.8951e+07  :      10.11  :       2.11
FP EMULATION        :           12.58  :       6.04  :       1.39
FOURIER             :          1959.6  :       2.23  :       1.25
ASSIGNMENT          :          2.0722  :       7.88  :       2.05
IDEA                :          531.81  :       8.13  :       2.42
HUFFMAN             :          204.04  :       5.66  :       1.81
NEURAL NET          :          3.0788  :       4.95  :       2.08
LU DECOMPOSITION    :          110.77  :       5.74  :       4.14
==========================ORIGINAL BYTEMARK 
RESULTS==========================
INTEGER INDEX       : 7.644
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 3.984
Baseline (MSDOS*)   : Pentium* 90, 256 KB L2-cache, Watcom* compiler 10.0
==============================LINUX DATA 
BELOW===============================
C compiler          : gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-87)
libc                : unknown version
MEMORY INDEX        : 1.911
INTEGER INDEX       : 1.905
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 2.210
Baseline (LINUX)    : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38
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Additional info:

RH 7.1 install on a DEC PWS-500au (500 MHz)

[root at berryton nbench-byte-2.1]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu                     : Alpha
cpu model               : EV56
cpu variation           : 7
cpu revision            : 0
cpu serial number       :
system type             : Miata
system variation        : 0
system revision         : 0
system serial number    :
cycle frequency [Hz]    : 499727954 est.
timer frequency [Hz]    : 1024.00
page size [bytes]       : 8192
phys. address bits      : 40
max. addr. space #      : 127
BogoMIPS                : 988.76
kernel unaligned acc    : 0 (pc=0,va=0)
user unaligned acc      : 0 (pc=0,va=0)
platform string         : Digital Personal WorkStation 500au
cpus detected           : 1

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Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net