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From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: Price/Performance figures for Number-Crunching
Message-ID: <17933@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 91 23:04:17 GMT
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In article <1628@spim.mips.COM> mash@mips.com (John Mashey) writes:
+SPEC has ALWAYS believed that there is no one figure of merit.
+That's why SPEC has always used a reporting form that included all 10 numbers,
+and why we've always said you need to see all of the numbers to even
+get a clue what the machine is like.  It turns out that the SPECint

I just got the SPEC info from Franson, Hagerty, and Associates, Inc.
and it appears to me that one must have un*x running on one's CPU to
perform most if not all the 10 benchmarks. How have others done
benchmarks on machines which run say, vxWorks or other 'real time'
OS's?

(Note: yes we do have a version of BSD on our hardware but we
didn't port FORTRAN, so 6 of the 10 are unavailable to us.)

And yes we could get the 'sun3' FORTRAN and then run the result
under vxWorks until I/O or virtual memory requirements caused
problems.
-- 

John Clark
jclark@ucsd.edu