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From: karplus@ce.ucsc.edu (Kevin Karplus)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: "useless" bc benchmark
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Date: 20 Feb 91 19:59:27 GMT
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Undoubtedly everyone by now is glad that the awful "bc" benchmark is
gone.  I just want to say that running it on my SLC and getting ridiculously
slow numbers finally resulted in the following:

	We installed a newer version of the CPU prom on ararat this morning,
	Feb 20.

Even "useless" benchmarks that give ridiculous results can be useful
for pointing out problems.

Kevin Karplus


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