Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks Subject: Re: performance vector approaches Message-ID: Date: 29 Apr 91 14:35:58 GMT References: <1991Apr25.174542.100@skyler.mavd.honeywell.com> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 22 In-reply-to: apm@vipunen.hut.fi's message of 28 Apr 91 00:14:54 GMT In article apm@vipunen.hut.fi (Antti Miettinen) writes: | Think of the Real World (what's that?). What do we want the computers | to do? My suggestions for the dimesions: | | - floating point performance (whetstones?) | - integer performance (2.x dhrystones?) | - graphics performance (something I don't know too much about) | - I/O performance (average seek, kB/sec or something..?) I've thought for some times that these are too low level. I think it needs to be raised to a higher level, for example: compiles/links/executes per hour vector codes per day etc. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?