RE: [Mingw-users] Program to calculate the MIPS of your computer (how fast it is).

[Ioannis V. <no...@ho...>]

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> From: min...@li... 
> [mailto:min...@li...] On Behalf Of 
> Sternbach, William [IT]
> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 10:04 PM
> To: 'Bob Friesenhahn'
> Cc: 'min...@li...'
> Subject: RE: [Mingw-users] Program to calculate the MIPS of 
> your computer (how fast it is).
> 
> 
> Bob,
> 
> I guess I was most interested in a "C" language 32 bit multiplication.
> 
> My benchmark program is customized on purpose to consider 1 
> instruction
> as a "C" language 32 bit multiplication.
> This multiplication probably translates into many assembler 
> instructions.
> But I am more interested in how many multiplications per 
> second my computer
> can do (than how many assembler instructions it can do),
> perhaps you can say my program measures MMPS.
> MIPS stands for Million Instructions per second.
> MMPS stands for Million Multiplications per second.
> 
> Writing this benchmark was a fun experience for me.
> I'm going to run try compiling it and running it on several different
> platforms:
> Sun Ultra Spark, Mainframe, PC, Apple Macintosh, etc.
> 
> It will be interesting to compare the results to find out 
> which is the best
> platform
> to do number crunching programs which do alot of math.


Well benchamrking the CPU cannot be reliable with this program
especially in a multitasking OS. I agree that you can find differences
among compilers though but only on the subject you are interested in &
measure, in this case loops with some multiplications.


Ioannis

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