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From: kline@cs.arizona.edu (Nick Kline)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Benchmarks (was Re: Read the fine print!)
Summary: specmarks
Message-ID: <25649@megaron.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 24 Sep 90 02:41:29 GMT
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In article <26FCE703.25276@orion.oac.uci.edu> sfrank@orion.oac.uci.edu (Steven Frank) writes:
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>Are Dhrystone and Linpack benchmarks available??  Ideally, the same
>benchmark versions as used in Personal Workstation, to allow comparison
>with other systems included in their tables of benchmarks.

Or even better, just give us the SPECmarks.  That would really be useful.

I would actually trust those, but for Linpack and Dhrystone its always
what compiler did you use, what version of the benchmark (makes a big
diff with Dhrystone), what compiler tricks did you use, etc.

Give me specmarks.  I know what those are for the sparcs.

The mathematica benchmark is basically worthless, because it could
be contrived to make the NeXT fast.  I mean, does it have IO?  What
is it?  etc etc, but SPECmarks are agreed upon by lots of
different manufactures, so I trust it.

-nick "specmark" kline
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	"This isn't a game; this is garbage collection!"
	      - heard during my Ph. D. Oral Qualifier

Nick Kline, Univ. of Az., Computer Science, Tucson, AZ 85721
(kline@cs.arizona.edu -or- {noao|allegra|cmcl2}!arizona!kline)