21 Oct
2004
21 Oct
'04
8:32 a.m.
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, John A. Dundas III wrote:
Subject: Re: VUPS measuring utility
For pointless hilarity, how about someone with pentium-class
assembly knowledge coding up the Gill Test?
"The Gill Test
A measure of the arithmetic speed of an automatic
computer. It is defined as the time in milliseconds required
for a computer to:
A + B = C {Store C}
C + D + E = F {Store F}
G x H = K {Store K}
when all access is to the fastest internal storage used in
the computer in question. For a one-address computer only
with one constant storage access storage device {such as
magnetic cores}, a gill is equal to ten times the average
operation time.
{Named after Stanley Gill of Cambridge University}
"
from
http://www.users.nwark.com/~rcmahq/jclark/gill.htm