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: <671@biar.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 89 02:06:43 GMT
References: <22031@abbott.mips.COM> <22033@abbott.mips.COM> <670@biar.UUCP>
Reply-To: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Organization: Biar Games, Inc.
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In article <670@biar.UUCP> trebor@biar.UUCP (Yours Truly) writes:
>	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...  ;^)

	Idea #2 - make the benchmark not compression but uncompression.
	Send out the whole benchmark suite compressed N times.  The
	first benchmark is uncompressing the benchmark suite!
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