BYTEmark Benchmark
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This distribution is a non-official port by Peter Hinely <phinely@hawaii.edu> 
of BYTE Magazine's BYTEmark benchmark using the "beta" BYTEmark 
sources available from http://www.byte.com/bmark/source/beta/beta.zip 
(the standard BYTEmark source distribution will not compile as easily as 
the later beta source distribution).

For more info about the BYTE Magazine's BYTEmark benchmark,
please visit http://www.byte.com/bmark/bmark.htm

Distribution info
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From http://www.byte.com/bmark/bdoc.htm:  "BYTE will continue to improve the BYTEmark. 
The source code is freely available."

Directions
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BYTEmark is a command line program.  You must run BYTEmark from a terminal (shell) window.

Changes to BYTEmark source code
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Changes to the source code were minimal:
nbench0.c:  Changed %lf's to %f's - Apparently BeIDE does not support that formatting option

Sample Results
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Motorola Starmax 5000/250
PPC 603e @ 250 Mhz, 32MB RAM
BeOS (PR3-PPC)
running Bytemark benchmark compiled with BeIDE 1.5

BYTEmark (tm) Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
NUMERIC SORT:  Iterations/sec.: 92.026870  Index: 2.360087
STRING SORT:  Iterations/sec.: 7.882420  Index: 3.522082
BITFIELD:  Iterations/sec.: 29102759.985338  Index: 4.992151
FP EMULATION:  Iterations/sec.: 10.449530  Index: 5.014170
FOURIER:  Iterations/sec.: 1502.782313  Index: 1.709109
ASSIGNMENT:  Iterations/sec.: 0.916427  Index: 3.487164
IDEA:  Iterations/sec.: 285.182351  Index: 4.361787
HUFFMAN:  Iterations/sec.: 165.819446  Index: 4.598177
NEURAL NET:  Iterations/sec.: 1.944466  Index: 3.123641
LU DECOMPOSITION:  Iterations/sec.: 34.870298  Index: 1.806461
...done...
===========OVERALL============
INTEGER INDEX: 3.932825
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 2.128547
 (90 MHz Dell Pentium = 1.00)
==============================


Motorola Starmax 5000/250
PPC 603e @ 250 Mhz, 32MB RAM
BeOS (PR2-PPC)
running Bytemark benchmark compiled with BeIDE

BYTEmark (tm) Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
NUMERIC SORT:  Iterations/sec.: 94.273139  Index: 2.417694
STRING SORT:  Iterations/sec.: 8.118491  Index: 3.627565
BITFIELD:  Iterations/sec.: 30607887.233858  Index: 5.250333
FP EMULATION:  Iterations/sec.: 9.855719  Index: 4.729232
FOURIER:  Iterations/sec.: 1519.381479  Index: 1.727988
ASSIGNMENT:  Iterations/sec.: 0.900646  Index: 3.427115
IDEA:  Iterations/sec.: 302.057781  Index: 4.619892
HUFFMAN:  Iterations/sec.: 147.114113  Index: 4.079477
NEURAL NET:  Iterations/sec.: 1.924261  Index: 3.091183
LU DECOMPOSITION:  Iterations/sec.: 34.030930  Index: 1.762977
...done...
===========OVERALL============
INTEGER INDEX: 3.913754
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 2.111709
 (90 MHz Dell Pentium = 1.00)
==============================     


Motorola Starmax 5000/250
PPC 603e @ 250 Mhz, 32MB RAM
MacOS 8.1
running Bytemark benchmark executable as downloaded from www.byte.com

BYTEmark (tm) Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
NUMERIC SORT:  Iterations/sec.: 97.349316  Index: 2.496584
STRING SORT:  Iterations/sec.: 11.183934  Index: 4.997290
BITFIELD:  Iterations/sec.: 108786659.713781  Index: 18.660752
FP EMULATION:  Iterations/sec.: 17.856726  Index: 8.568487
FOURIER:  Iterations/sec.: 4201.691245  Index: 4.778570
ASSIGNMENT:  Iterations/sec.: 0.891448  Index: 3.392114
IDEA:  Iterations/sec.: 411.074452  Index: 6.287273
HUFFMAN:  Iterations/sec.: 236.379705  Index: 6.554814
NEURAL NET:  Iterations/sec.: 2.676467  Index: 4.299546
LU DECOMPOSITION:  Iterations/sec.: 40.313154  Index: 2.088429
...done...
===========OVERALL============
INTEGER INDEX: 5.996730
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 3.500859
 (90 MHz Dell Pentium = 1.00)
==============================


Custom-built PC
Pentium II @ 233 Mhz, 64MB RAM
BeOS (PR3-x86)
running Bytemark benchmark compiled with BeIDE 1.5

BYTEmark (tm) Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
NUMERIC SORT:  Iterations/sec.: 95.959652  Index: 2.460946
STRING SORT:  Iterations/sec.: 3.419583  Index: 1.527964
BITFIELD:  Iterations/sec.: 29197914.924899  Index: 5.008473
FP EMULATION:  Iterations/sec.: 6.811197  Index: 3.268329
FOURIER:  Iterations/sec.: 1582.190469  Index: 1.799420
ASSIGNMENT:  Iterations/sec.: 1.623435  Index: 6.177455
IDEA:  Iterations/sec.: 150.681836  Index: 2.304638
HUFFMAN:  Iterations/sec.: 92.423497  Index: 2.562905
NEURAL NET:  Iterations/sec.: 1.329232  Index: 2.135312
LU DECOMPOSITION:  Iterations/sec.: 22.779956  Index: 1.180119
...done...
===========OVERALL============
INTEGER INDEX: 3.011408
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 1.655151
 (90 MHz Dell Pentium = 1.00)
==============================


Custom-built PC
Pentium II @ 233 Mhz, 64MB RAM
Windows NT 4.0
running Bytemark benchmark executable as downloaded from www.byte.com

BYTEmark (tm) Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (3/95)
NUMERIC SORT:  Iterations/sec.: 100.910423  Index: 2.607841
STRING SORT:  Iterations/sec.: 6.591288  Index: 2.897269
BITFIELD:  Iterations/sec.: 25933651.811198  Index: 4.448442
FP EMULATION:  Iterations/sec.: 4.241784  Index: 2.039319
FOURIER:  Iterations/sec.: 2620.358271  Index: 2.967026
ASSIGNMENT:  Iterations/sec.: 1.409941  Index: 5.371818
IDEA:  Iterations/sec.: 199.463454  Index: 3.051766
HUFFMAN:  Iterations/sec.: 143.114167  Index: 3.977051
NEURAL NET:  Iterations/sec.: 2.500894  Index: 4.231632
LU DECOMPOSITION:  Iterations/sec.: 82.364835  Index: 4.862725
...done...
===========OVERALL============
INTEGER INDEX: 3.322433
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 3.937589
 (90 MHz Dell Pentium = 1.00)
==============================
