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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,rec.humor
Subject: Re: rhealstone
Keywords: real-time benchmark, yabadabadoo!
Message-ID: <2251@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 89 22:09:53 GMT
References: <4476@hubcap.UUCP> <5681@pdn.nm.paradyne.com> <1521@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates, Vancouver, BC.
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In article <1521@trantor.harris-atd.com> chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes:
>In article <5681@pdn.nm.paradyne.com> alan@pdn.nm.paradyne.com (0000-Alan Lovejoy) writes:
>>It seems that *h*stone has become a standard infix/prefix for naming
>>computer benchmarks.  It might be interesting to collect a list of
>>all the benchmarks whose names have this form, and to entertain
>>suggestions for new, perhaps whimsical, benchmark names that would
>>use this infix/prefix.
>>

A year or so back I did a quicky called "newstone". Basically the average
number of news your systems unbatches per minute. We can hereby rename it
using your conventions as the "nhewstones" benchmark.

Was slightly useful for load balancing tests. All it did was to scan the history
file and count the articles. It ignored any minutes which did not have an
article unbatched in the previous or following minutes to eliminate the
startup and finishup times.

My little Callan does about 10 nhewstones.


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