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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: Prolog Efficiency and Benchmarking
Message-ID: <3502@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 2 Aug 90 02:03:28 GMT
References: <708@ecrc.de>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <708@ecrc.de>, micha@ecrc.de (Micha Meier) writes:
[ that benchmarking large programs gives different results from
  benchmarking small ones, and that we need some large ones
]
Absoutely right, but there IS a collection of larger benchmarks,
that was collected at the Prolog Benchmarking Workshop at Aerospace
Corp a couple of years ago.  Contact Karl Kesselman for details.
A tape is available.  It isn't, I'm afraid, possible to use ISO-like
syntax yet, because nobody knows well enough what it will be like.
-- 
Distinguishing between a work written in Hebrew and one written in Aramaic
when we have only a Latin version made from a Greek translation is not easy.
(D.J.Harrington, discussing pseudo-Philo)