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From: mash@mips.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: CISC strikes back.
Message-ID: <2175@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 12 May 88 19:33:31 GMT
References: <30872@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <3460014@hpsrla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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Posted: Thu May 12 15:33:31 1988

In article <3460014@hpsrla.HP.COM> brucek@hpsrla.HP.COM (Bruce Kleinman) writes:
>+-------
>| Good God man, enough of this drivel; dhrystones, damnit, I want dhrystones!
>+-------
>Dhrystones?  We don't need no stinkin' dhrystones!  Let's see some really
>*useful* benchmark numbers ... like Puzzle and Sieve.

This is one more reminder that we really could use some more good, realistic,
substantive, non-toy, public domain, commonly-cited integer benchmarks.
It would be awfully nice to get at least 6-10 good ones that people
agreed had some representative qualities.
-- 
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