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

[chris]

On 12/16/22 14:49, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

I should try looking again. Pretty much bang up to date afaics...

Chris