[Coco] The WinCMOC Project (CoCo C Compiler + Editor)

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 31 August 2016 21:57:59 Melanie and John Mark Mobley wrote:

> Derek,
>
> I would like to compare a CoCo 3 with a modern computer.
> I would like to know of benchmark results between a CoCo 3 and a more
> modern computer.
> A integer results and a floating point results.

This, John, won't show the coco in a very favorable light as it takes the 
coco3 nominally 11 seconds just to move a megabyte of data from ram, to 
ram.  That limit is its clock speed.

> Perhaps Dhrystone and Whetstone benchmark test.

I don't know if those were ever ported to the coco. Likely not because of 
a lack of sufficient memory to hold all the data. I have not heard of 
them other than with much bigger, better configured hardware.

Someone should  correct me if that has been done.  I'd also like to have 
a way to compare bogomips between the coco3 and a machine even as old as 
this one is getting to be.

> And a test that would show the gains made my using a multi core
> microprocessor.
> I have an idea for a newsletter article and I would like to use some
> more factual numbers for my article.
>
> I am trying to say things like my new computer is about 10,000 times
> faster but takes about 100 times longer to boot.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benchmark_(computing)
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bloat
>
> John Mark Mobley


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