Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think.com!mintaka!ogicse!orstcs!usenet!jacobsd From: jacobsd@usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU (Dana Jacobsen) Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks Subject: Re: benchmark evaluations Message-ID: <1990Dec14.120743.20942@usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 14 Dec 90 12:07:43 GMT References: <12220@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1990Dec12.070209.3272@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1990Dec12.140615.27870@cs.utk.edu> <1990Dec12.182926.14306@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1990Dec12.202608.3906@cs.utk.edu> <6391@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept Lines: 29 In <6391@mace.cc.purdue.edu> abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell) writes: >In article <1990Dec12.202608.3906@cs.utk.edu> de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill) writes: >>In article <1990Dec12.182926.14306@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes: >>>In article <1990Dec12.140615.27870@cs.utk.edu> Dave Sill writes: >>>>Could be. Why doesn't someone keep a table of SPEC results? >>>Go for it. The only source I have of SPEC results is copyrighted, and >>>very incomplete. >There seem to be two obstacles to publishing a table of SPEC results: > 1. Many of the available numbers are copyrighted by SPEC. > 2. SPEC license holders are constrained to use a comprehensive > reporting protocol that doesn't lend itself to tabulation. >I've got my own, internal table of SPEC results, gleaned from the SPEC >newsletter, vendor reports, and my own running of the SPEC suite, but I >don't think I can publish it. It seems that it is very hard to get ahold of SPEC results. What is the point of the SPEC benchmarks? I had originally assumed it was to help consumers decide what machines to buy, show off the numbers, whatever. This seems to not be the case. One of the big pluses of SPEC results was that one would see 10 numbers, not just one. Unfortunately, SPEC seems to be defeating it's own purpose in not allowing these results to be published, as Trade rags only print the one number. From what I can see, SPEC exists for the sole purpose of giving vendors something more to give their software people to do. -- Dana Jacobsen jacobsd@cs.orst.edu