Re: Apple II benchmarks

["John King" <joki@eskimo.com>]

Matt Jenkins <mdj@pacific.net.au> wrote in message
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> The really surprising thing is that the Intel chips have hardware
> multiply,
> so those machines should have eaten the IIe for breakfast, but they
> didn't.
> I conducted tests like that years ago trying to prove to a XT equipped
> friend
> that clock speed isn't everything. Needless to say, a IIe with a
> transwarp card
> fitted (or any other accelerator) embarrases 4.77 Mhz PC's.
>
> That said, I don't think the tests in BASIC are very fair, since it's
> benchmarking
> the BASIC interpreter as well as the hardware. Ultimately, such tests
> need to be
> hand tuned assembly to show which machine is actually faster.

It's been a LONG time, as we all know, and the software was really
different, but I just felt the 1000A was generally in the ballpark with the
Model One, maybe twice as fast, but not 10 or 5x as fast. I think ......
some of it was that some code was not optimized yet for 8088.