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To: bob who wrote (3545)8/23/1998 4:20:00 AM
From: lkj  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 10309
 
Not so impressive with PAUSE (multitasking, and
context switching); only comparable speed to a
68HC11. But since the result has been normalized
to compensate for the different clock speeds at
which these MCUs run, a 100Mhz PSC1000 would not
be so slow compare to a 12Mhz 68HC11.

I wish the benchmark could have given specific
numbers rather than "slower" and "faster".

---------more from the conference call-------------
Ron mentioned two 3-year I2O royalty payments
in the conference call, and the company is taking a
convervative accounting practice at accounting only
1/12 of the payments per quarter.

Jave was also mentioned as being not mature enough
for the embedded market right now. WRS is working
with SUN to shrink the footprint and speed up the speed.
Ron also mentioned that unification between HP JAVA
and Sun JAVA is needed before JAVA can take off.

Khan



To: bob who wrote (3545)8/26/1998 11:34:00 PM
From: William Sheppard  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 10309
 
Jim wrote:

Here's some impressive benchmarks for Patriot Scientific's PSC1000 using the SwiftX Cross Compiler from FORTH Inc

I'm not too impressed. Unless the normalization effectively reduces the PSC1000 clock speed to 25MHz or less, this doesn't compare to the other RISC chips (StrongARM, MIPS) which are 15-20x the performance of a 68332.

Bill


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