----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
To: emanuel stiebler <emu@ecubics.com>
Cc: <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 11:34
Subject: Re: VUP


> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, emanuel stiebler wrote:
>
> > Anybody here know (or remember ;-), how this was measured, benchmarked ?
> >
> > I know, that the 11/780 should be 1 VUP, but how they benchmarked the
> > newer machines ?
>
> I'm not really answering your question here, but I'll tell you what I've
> done.  I tend to just take the Dhrystone benchmark and run it on a known
> VUP VAX.  I take the resulting dhry/s value, divide it by the known VUP
> value for the system, and then use the result as a dhry/s to VUP ratio.
>
> >From here you can benchmark an unknown system using the Dhrystone
> benchmark can convert to VUPs with the ratio.  I've found that the
> calculated VUP results match up pretty well with the values advertised
> by DEC.

What you're telling (writing ? ;-) is, that VUPs has nothing to do with
floating point performance ? No I/O ?

cheers,
emanuel