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From: lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: Don't use bc (was: More issues of benchmarking)
Message-ID: <11318@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 7 Dec 90 02:26:02 GMT
References: <1990Dec6.221422.5676@mozart.amd.com>
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In article <1990Dec6.221422.5676@mozart.amd.com> 
	tim@amd.com (Tim Olson) writes:
>The "comp" column is a computed SPECMark based upon the bc time (1/t *
>123) -- the 123 was chosen as the scale factor (assuming a linear
>relationship of 1/t with SPECMark) so that the first machine (MIPS
>RC6280) matched.

The Number You've All Been Waiting For: VAX 11/780 = 73.3

Evidently BCmarks come out smaller than SPECmarks. But then, we
already knew that it was a budget benchmark.
-- 
Don		D.C.Lindsay


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