Byte Sieve of Eratosthenes Results? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Apr 2004

At 12:31 22/04/2004 -0500, you wrote:
...
 All,
	A question: I wondered if results from the Byte Sieve of 
Eratosthenes "benchmark" are publicly available anywhere, or if I 
have to root out a copy of Byte Magazine? I googled for it, and found 
nice C and Forth versions at

http://home.iae.nl/users/mhx/nsieve.html

and *some* results, but I'd sort of like to re-read the original 
article and see what the results for all of the classic computers 
they tested were.
	The above URL cites Byte, Sept. 1981, pp. 180, and Jan. 1983, 
pp. 283. Copyright law being what it is, I assume the articles are 
still Byte magazine IP, but I'd think they could gain a fair amount 
of publicity from having that article posted somewhere as a "teaser", 
particularly if they link to some of the url's showing modern machine 
performance. Can't find such a pointer on their site, 
http://www.byte.com however. And the site itself is not encouraging.
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					- Mark
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Hi Mark,

I happen to have an August 1983 BYTE magazine in front of me, which
has an artical entitled "Comparing C Compilers for CP/M-86" in which
they use the Sieve as one of their main benchmarks. They are testing
Williams, Desmet, Lattice, Computer Innovations and Digital Research
tools.

The artical is fairly long - about 13 pages. If this is of interest
to you, I could scan it and put it somewhere where you can get it.

Btw, this particular issue (Aug 83) is entitled "The C Language",
and has a lot of good material in it:

Theres also a comparison of 5 CPM/80 compilers which also uses the
Sieve as one of the main benchmarks, There's alse a comparison of 9
PC/DOS compilers, but I don't think (from cursory re-read) that they
use the Sieve in that one.

On top of that, there's an artical by Steve Johnston and Brian Kernighan
describing a lot of the design philosophy and early experiences, a couple
of general "into to C" type articals, and artical on C in unix systems,
A C bibliography, an artical on C compatibility issues between Unix and
CP/M and a bunch more - really a good issue (which is why it's one of
the few I've kept).

Don't think I want to scan the whole thing (unless you want to wait a
*LONG* time) - but I will do what I can to get any parts you are
interested in to you.

Regards,
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