From: derek@NOSPAM-knosof.co.uk   
      
   Roger,   
      
    > As I understand it, computers were originally designed to do arithmetic   
    > computations and in the old days nearly 100% of a CPU's work involved   
    > arithmetic computations.   
   Knight did lots of work trying to compare computer performance,   
   which required measuring instruction usage across the most common   
   kinds of applications.   
      
   Links to his papers and some data here:   
   http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2016/04/30/costperfor   
   ance-analysis-of-1944-1967-computers-knights-data/   
      
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