Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!bloom-beacon!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Casting Stones Message-ID: <25bb0c4b@ralf> Date: 22 Jan 90 12:36:11 GMT Sender: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: <25BAAA80.12762@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> In article <25BAAA80.12762@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) wrote: }they did. There are other ?h*stone benchmarks, mostly just names with }comical definitions, but some (such as the dhampstone) do actually }exist and perform useful functions. Two more: the rhealstone (from Dr. Dobbs Journal) for measuring real-time systems, and the nhfsstone which presumably measures NFS performance. -- UUCP: {ucbvax,harvard}!cs.cmu.edu!ralf -=- 412-268-3053 (school) -=- FAX: ask ARPA: ralf@cs.cmu.edu BIT: ralf%cs.cmu.edu@CMUCCVMA FIDO: Ralf Brown 1:129/46 "How to Prove It" by Dana Angluin Disclaimer? I claimed something? 14. proof by importance: A large body of useful consequences all follow from the proposition in question.