Hi, 


To compare the speed of your system, I let the byte UNIX bench run on a 
586/100Mhz AMD Linux box and added the results to the table. I think these 
values need no comment.


gcc options = -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions) on all 
systems.


> 

>   Here's a side by side comparison of the systems.

> 

<smaller><smaller><fixed>>                                             Arm7/40 
      SA110/200      AMD586/100

> 

> Dhrystone 2 without register variables    43958.5 lps   274423.3 lps   211352.0 lps

> Dhrystone 2 using register variables      43995.7 lps   284374.2 lps   211450.3 lps

> Arithmetic Test (type = arithoh)          76275.0 lps   482663.2 lps   645510.5 lps

> Arithmetic Test (type = register)          7442.2 lps    43931.9 lps    19554.7 lps

> Arithmetic Test (type = short)             6689.7 lps    39602.5 lps    19216.6 lps

> Arithmetic Test (type = int)               7443.5 lps    39602.5 lps    19523.4 lps

> Arithmetic Test (type = long)              7443.3 lps    44035.6 lps    19611.3 lps

> Arithmetic Test (type = float)              104.8 lps      843.4 lps     9967.1 lps

> Arithmetic Test (type = double)             107.1 lps      811.8 lps     9967.0 lps

> System Call Overhead Test                  8345.4 lps    60823.9 lps    54582.3 lps

> Pipe Throughput Test                       1362.9 lps     8547.0 lps    59920.9 lps

> Pipe-based Context Switching Test           644.2 lps      372.2 lps     7208.4 lps

> Process Creation Test                        47.7 lps       16.4 lps      358.4 lps

> Execl Throughput Test                        52.5 lps       16.6 lps       52.5 lps

> File Read  (10 seconds)                   10210.0 KBps  65855.0 KBps

> File Write (10 seconds)                     600.0 KBps    600.0 KBps

> File Copy  (10 seconds)                     426.0 KBps    461.0 KBps 

> File Read  (30 seconds)                   12351.0 KBps  64031.0 KBps 

> File Write (30 seconds)                     400.0 KBps    466.0 KBps

> File Copy  (30 seconds)                     520.0 KBps    676.0 KBps

> C Compiler Test                              16.2 lpm       13.9 lpm      109.9 lpm 

> Shell scripts (1 concurrent)                 32.6 lpm       23.3 lpm      143.9 lpm

> Shell scripts (2 concurrent)                 13.0 lpm       10.3 lpm       76.0 lpm

> Shell scripts (4 concurrent)                  6.0 lpm        4.0 lpm       38.3 lpm

> Shell scripts (8 concurrent)                  2.6 lpm        1.0 lpm       19.0 lpm

> Dc: sqrt(2) to 99 decimal places           1254.6 lpm      462.1 lpm     2509.4 lpm

> Recursion Test--Tower of Hanoi              713.1 lps     4471.7 lps     2711.0 lps

> 

> </smaller></smaller></fixed>




Ciao, Peter


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