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From: mip@massormetrix.ida.liu.se (Mikael Patel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Benchmarks wanted
Keywords: Performance measuring, profiling, debugging, playing around.
Message-ID: <1475@massormetrix.ida.liu.se>
Date: 11 Dec 89 22:45:02 GMT
Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Science, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
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I'am looking for some appropriate benchmarks for a C-based Forth I'am
working on. I have run the sieve benchmark (both versions) and the
fibonacci function and now looking around for some more.

Do you have any others? Please post them! 

Also how should we deal with comparison of threading methods, processor, 
cache, clock rate, bit-width, etc? Some suggestions? For instance, a 
poor threading method (as using C as the implementation language) can 
be "compensated" for by using a faster processor e.g. workstation. 

Last, how should we construct Forth benchmarks? What properties do we
want to measure? And how can we measure them accuratly?


Mikael R.K. Patel
Researcher and Lecturer
Computer Aided Design Laboratory (CADLAB)
Department of Computer and Information Science
Linkoping University, S-581 83  LINKOPING, SWEDEN

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