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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Benchmarking
Message-ID: <4853@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 88 20:40:14 GMT
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In article <1988Oct9.011633.13259@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:

>Note three complications:

>	1. The GNU stuff is ***NOT*** public domain.

>	2. It tends to be huge.

Reasons why people ahve liked these as potential benchmarks are:
	1. Although not public domain, "generally available" is much better
	than "proprietary", which is unfortunately true for many otherwise
	desirable benchmarks.
	2. Tends to be huge.  GOOD!  Most of the common itneger benchmarks are
	toys or near-toys, unlike the floating-point ones.
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