[Info-vax] Python for x86?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/8/2023 7:23 AM, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 08/05/2023 04:30, terry-... at glaver.org wrote:
>> On Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 11:55:00 AM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> If someone want to check themselves the sources are
>>> available at https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/temp/bm.zip !
>>
>> Here's what I get on my emulated Alpha (AlphaVM-Pro 1.5.73 JIT3) on 
>> dual E5-2643 v3 CPUs (only the first result from each test run reported):
>> 2_SERVER::$ @test.com
>> C:
>> 337.8378 million integer operations per second
>> 35.2113 million floating point operations per second
>> 3.4483 million string operations per second

Amazing so fast Alpha sim with JIT is. It is more than
x10 without JIT.

>>   Basic:
>>    24.6609 million integer operations per second
>>    28.4091 million floating point operations per second

> Interesting that BASIC show integer as slower than FP

Yes. I was puzzled by that as well. But I got the same result
on my systems.

/NOCHECK does not change it so it is not the overflow
check.

Maybe there is some subtle error in the Basic integer
test code. But I cannot see it.

Or maybe it is just an example of how random results
can be with a very limited benchmark - the integer
result practically depends on a single line of code.

Arne