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From: eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene Miya N.)
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Subject: Re: Performance of LISP machines
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Date: Tue, 19-May-87 17:42:05 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 19 17:42:05 1987
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In article <28200036@ccvaxa> Scott writes:
>
>I agree strongly with the need for more, and more representative,
>benchmarks.  One of the nice things about the Lisp world is having
>a relatively standard set of benchmarks to talk about in comparing
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^? Oh yeah?
>machines (though even there there are so many things not specified that
>there is still romm to argue about whether your numbers are comparable).
>
>-- 
>scott preece
>gould/csd - urbana
>uucp:	ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece
>arpa:	preece@gswd-vms

B*S*

Too arbitrary.
The same goes for benchmarking non-LISP workstations.

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  NASA Ames Research Center
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