New integer benchmark out...

[Chuck(G)]

While this may or may not be strictly vintage, there's an outfit flogging a new alternative to Dhrystone, called Coremark.

I was thinking that some might want to see how this one stacks up on, say, a Peanut.

 

[carlsson]

Hm, it is promised to compile a 16K binary on x86 computers. I wonder how much workspace RAM is required. Are there any modern ANSI C compilers that generate 8088 compatible code? Otherwise I suppose you'd have to use Turbo C, perhaps Lattice and so on.

 

[Chuck(G)]

Hm, it is promised to compile a 16K binary on x86 computers. I wonder how much workspace RAM is required. Are there any modern ANSI C compilers that generate 8088 compatible code? Otherwise I suppose you'd have to use Turbo C, perhaps Lattice and so on.

The last version of 16-bit Microsoft C (8.0?) should come pretty close to ANSI C, but not C++ conformance--and you can explicitly generate 8088 code with it.