At 19:57 -0500 4/22/04, Dave Dunfield wrote:
>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. ...
Dave, thanks very much for the kind offer! I was mainly after two
aspects of the original article(s). 1) The listing of the program, in
many different languages (I seem to recall Forth, Basic, C, possibly
others) and 2) The extremely wide range of performances turned in by
different computer/language combinations, ranging from TRS-80 basic
up to (IIRC) Cray or something on that order. So the C benchmarks,
while interesting, aren't really what I'm after.
The whole discussion came up because I was trying to explain to the
kids what an "algorithm" is.
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- Mark
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Received on Fri Apr 23 2004 - 09:17:52 BST