A method for comparing the internal operating speeds of computers

  • Authors:
  • Eugene Raichelson;George Collins

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Concepts, Inc., Silver Spring, MD;Computer Concepts, Inc., Silver Spring, MD

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1964

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Abstract

First, a table of frequencies of various types of operations is prepared based on experience in similar applications or, perhaps, on actual counts if these are available. Table 1 shows such a frequency table. Next, the total weighted execution time for a given operation type is obtained by multiplying the time required for the operation by the frequency count. Finally, an “average” operation time is calculated by summing overall operation types and dividing by the sum of the frequency counts. Table 2 shows the computation for the IBM 7090.Table 3 shows a comparison of average and relative speeds for several current computers for the particular application using the IBM 7090 as a reference base.