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From: kahn@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Shahin Kahn)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: specmarks
Message-ID: <9171@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 28 Oct 89 07:40:34 GMT
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Reply-To: kahn@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Shahin Kahn)
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In article <4420015@hpihoah.HP.COM> fotland@hpihoah.HP.COM (David Fotland) writes:
>You could define an architectural figure of merit as Specmark/Clock freq.

You should also include compiler quality somehow.  A good architecture
with a lousy code generator shouldn't get a bad mark for architecture.