Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!biar!trebor
From: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: SPEC Bench-a-Thon
Keywords: SPEC performance benchmarks systems
Message-ID: <670@biar.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 89 02:04:10 GMT
References: <22031@abbott.mips.COM> <22033@abbott.mips.COM>
Reply-To: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Organization: Biar Games, Inc.
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In article <22033@abbott.mips.COM> rnovak@mips.COM (Robert E. Novak) writes:
>Actually, compress is on the list of candidate benchmarks.  The difficulty
>that we have encountered is putting the proper wrapper around compress.  We
>don't want to ship a huge file that will properly exercise compress.

	Well, if you want to get elegant, have compress compress it's
	own source code, then compress the compressed file, and repeat
	the process N times...  ;^)

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