Subject: Re: 060 speeds
From: [email-masked] (Christopher Eric Hanson) ()
To: Multiple recipients of list <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 03:21:35 -0500

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (John Ferrel) writes:
> C'mon, use your head, guys!  Why the hell would they build an '060 if it
> wouldn't do more MIPS & MFLOPS?  Don't get me started....

  I'm resisting the urge to flame...

  To restate: The 060 is faster than the 040. But instructions that run
quickly on the 040 will run quickly on the 060, and instructions that
ran slowly on the 040 will run faster on the 060, but still not as fast
as other 060 instructions.

  To elaborate: The 040 had some instructions that were emulated in software
instead of being run in hardware (as they were on the 6888x). So they weren't
as fast as they maybe could have been. Some of these instructions, like the
FMOD or transcendentals, have been done better in the 060.

  However, overall, there are few changes one could make to existing code
to make it run better on the 060 than it did before.

  My sources for this information include LaMonte Koop, author of the
AIBB benchmark utility for the Amiga.

> John
> John Ferrel         [email-masked]

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