On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Rik Griffin wrote:

> > 
> > Dhrystone 2 without register variables    36206.4 lps   274423.3 lps
> > Dhrystone 2 using register variables      36093.8 lps   284374.2 lps
> 
> As an aside: This shows up how poor gcc is. Acorn Cv5 produces a
> Dhrystone 2 that gives 41300 lps on an ARM 610/33. Should give about 55k
> on an ARM 710??

  This lps isn't the same as the kdhrystone figure you get from dhrystone.
BYTE have hacked the program about a bit and it gives slightly lower results.

  Also, wasn't there someone here who'd written some optimised clib 
routines which improved dhrystone by ~15%?

  Have they been tested in RiscBSD at all?

Ale.