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From: lewine@cheshirecat.webo.dg.com (Donald Lewine)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: benchmarks (SPECmarks)
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Date: 14 Nov 90 18:39:49 GMT
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In article <7581@eos.arc.nasa.gov>, eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya) writes:
|> 
|> This is why SPEC's decision to normalize performance on the DEC VAX-11/780
|> or say the IBM PC, simply because they are or were common is bad.
|> This is akin to to taking the wind up clock I used to wake up as a youngster
|> and designating it as a time standard.  If you think this analogy is
|> bogus, consider taking a common ruler, 12 inches or a meter stick,
|> designating that as THE Meter or THE Foot, those wooden things,
|> then try to make sub-micron lines for your memories or CPUs. 

	But SPEC took a particular VAX-11/780.  The 11/780 time for
	gcc is 1482 seconds.  It is not what you get on your particular
	VAX.  This is more like taking a gold bar in Paris and saying
	that is the standard meter.  As look as there is only one gold
	bar, that is not a problem.

	I think that 29 SPECmarks is more understandable than saying
	that the Geometric Mean of the benchmark times is 133.3 
	seconds.

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