[rescue] E3000's

[Dave McGuire]

On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 02:53 PM, vance at neurotica.com wrote:
>> Also, now that I think about it, it's pretty hard to clearly define a
>> VUP on a non-DEC system.  I still like my idea of clockrate x avg IPC.
>
> But 1MIP ~ equals 1VUP anyway.  But even then, we have to take into
> account how complex an operation that the machine can execute in one
> clock.  Doing matrix transforms in a single clock should have more 
> weight
> that doing an integer add in a single clock.

   Ahh, the trials and tribulations of coming up with meaningful 
benchmarks.

   Smarter people than us have tried and failed to come up with such 
things, guys.

       -Dave

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