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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: SPEC Bench-a-Thon
Keywords: SPEC performance benchmarks systems
Message-ID: <4714@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 23 Jun 89 15:46:45 GMT
References: <22031@abbott.mips.COM> <22033@abbott.mips.COM>
Organization: Xenix Support
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I think one thing that would make a nice benchmark is running a few
generations of LIFE from a known interesting starting position, such as the
R pentomino. It would probably want to be a naive implementation of the
algorithm, rather than something that does bounds checking to limit the
computation or stores the cells in some exotic data structure.

Of course if you allowed moderately exotic implementations it'd make a
nice benchmark for array processors. A couple of years back I suggested
this and people mailed me some awesome results from things like the
Connection Machine...
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Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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