At 12:31 22/04/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>All,
> A question: I wondered if results from the Byte Sieve of
>Eratosthenes "benchmark" are publicly available anywhere, or if I
>have to root out a copy of Byte Magazine? I googled for it, and found
>nice C and Forth versions at
>
>http://home.iae.nl/users/mhx/nsieve.html
>
>and *some* results, but I'd sort of like to re-read the original
>article and see what the results for all of the classic computers
>they tested were.
> The above URL cites Byte, Sept. 1981, pp. 180, and Jan. 1983,
>pp. 283. Copyright law being what it is, I assume the articles are
>still Byte magazine IP, but I'd think they could gain a fair amount
>of publicity from having that article posted somewhere as a "teaser",
>particularly if they link to some of the url's showing modern machine
>performance. Can't find such a pointer on their site,
>http://www.byte.com however. And the site itself is not encouraging.
>--
> - Mark
> 210-522-6025, page 888-733-0967
Hi Mark,
I happen to have an August 1983 BYTE magazine in front of me, which
has an artical entitled "Comparing C Compilers for CP/M-86" in which
they use the Sieve as one of their main benchmarks. They are testing
Williams, Desmet, Lattice, Computer Innovations and Digital Research
tools.
The artical is fairly long - about 13 pages. If this is of interest
to you, I could scan it and put it somewhere where you can get it.
Btw, this particular issue (Aug 83) is entitled "The C Language",
and has a lot of good material in it:
Theres also a comparison of 5 CPM/80 compilers which also uses the
Sieve as one of the main benchmarks, There's alse a comparison of 9
PC/DOS compilers, but I don't think (from cursory re-read) that they
use the Sieve in that one.
On top of that, there's an artical by Steve Johnston and Brian Kernighan
describing a lot of the design philosophy and early experiences, a couple
of general "into to C" type articals, and artical on C in unix systems,
A C bibliography, an artical on C compatibility issues between Unix and
CP/M and a bunch more - really a good issue (which is why it's one of
the few I've kept).
Don't think I want to scan the whole thing (unless you want to wait a
*LONG* time) - but I will do what I can to get any parts you are
interested in to you.
Regards,
--
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