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From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick)
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Subject: Re: Byte UNIX Benchmarks
Message-ID: <1990Mar15.151706.13445@siia.mv.com>
Date: 15 Mar 90 15:17:06 GMT
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mjr@atreus.umiacs.umd.edu (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:

>In article <1990Mar6.163657.7550@me.toronto.edu> yap@me.utoronto.ca (Davin Yap) writes:
>>Has anyone got a copy of the UNIX benchmarks discussed in the latest
>>issue of Byte magazine.

>	<snigger> are these benchmarks from the magazine that ues
>Sieve of Eratosthenes as a compiler benchmark, and a Loutus-1-2-3
>spreadsheet as a CPU benchmark ?

>	Or is this the infamous Jerry Pournelle BASIC benchmark re-written
>in C?

Good benchmarks are hard.  Byte hasn't done such a bad job, considering
the difficulty.  Their benchmarks are *much* better then the feature
lists much of the computer "consumer" press has sunk to.

David Dick
Software Innovations, Inc.  [the Software Moving Company(sm)]