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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-12-19, Mark Daniel <mark.daniel at wasd.vsm.com.au> wrote:
> On 20/12/2022 5:40 am, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> That means operating systems running under it should be running at close
>> to native hardware performance speeds and it means you should be testing
>> the x86-64 performance against physical Alpha machines, not emulated ones.
>
> As a performance comparison tool, why not?
>

Because I was expecting an emulated Alpha to be slower than a real Alpha
so the results Dan gets might not be like-for-like.

Simon.

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