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From: aburto@marlin.NOSC.MIL (Alfred A. Aburto)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: Which benchmarks are useless?
Keywords: benchmarks  date  statistical correlation
Message-ID: <1749@marlin.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 25 Apr 91 20:00:10 GMT
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A question I have (for a test, instead of that 'useless', 'meaningless' 
discussion) is:  

What is the correlation between Dhrystone 2.1 results and Integer 
SPECmarks?  How 'bad' is Dhrystone really compared to Integer SPECmarks?
Don't really need to compute a correlation, but just show a table of
comparable results (Integer SPECmark results vs Dhrystone results relative
to VAX-11/780).

What if I took 4 (or N) integer programs (different than used by SPEC)
and ran them on various systems and computed performance relative to
the VAX-11/780. Would these integer results agree with the integer 
SPECmark results for the same systems? Would they even be close?

Al Aburto
aburto@marlin.nosc.mil