[Info-vax] VUPS.COM relevance for modern CPUs

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/16/2022 9:11 AM, chris wrote:
> On 12/16/22 11:57, Mark Daniel wrote:
>> Now, before everyone piles on, I understand the procedure provides an 
>> indicative/comparative/finger-in-the-air measurement of the relative 
>> performance of a VMS CPU relative to "the original VAX processor".
> 
> The spec.org site used to be the best place for that sort of thing
> and where iirc, the original work to define 1 vup was done. Still
> running and might be worth looking at. Truth is though, gains have
> been incrementally minimal for single core, with multicore
> taking up the banner since.
> 
> Here, in the days when I used the Tex package, a good rough guide
> was the number of source pages compiled per minute. Microvax II,
> about 4 ppm, First Sun workstation, about 20 ppm...

SPEC is diffferent from VUPS.

But VUPS, SPEC 89 and SPEC 92 are all VAX 780 based.

SPEC 95 is SparcStation 10 and SPEC 2000 is Sparc Ultra 10 based.

(all according to old notes I made like 20 years ago)

Arne