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From: cw@ardent.com (Charles Wetherell)
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Subject: Submission for comp-lang-sigplan
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Date: 14 Feb 90 18:02:00 GMT
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From: cw@ardent.UUCP (Charles Wetherell)
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Subject: Need prog. language grammars for SPEC benchmark
Keywords: grammars LR programming language SPEC performance benchmark
Date: 14 Feb 90 18:01:59 GMT
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I would like to submit a new benchmark to the SPEC
benchmark consortium.  Unfortunately, I need some data
sets to use to run the benchmark.  Specifically, I need
some large grammars for programming (or possibly, other)
languages.  By preference, these grammars should have 
between 400 and 1000 productions and should be LR(1);
grammars which are only SLR(1) are likely not to strain
the benchmark enough.  I will take the grammars in
any sensible machine readable form; that is, yacc, bison,
BNF, or other formats are acceptable.  The actual purpose
of the grammar is irrelevant.

Obviously, any grammar submitted must be available to all
comers.  SPEC is distributed widely and I don't want to
fiddle with permissions, copyrights, and the like.

If you can help, I would appreciate it and we might have
a chance to make SPEC a slightly better benchmark.  Please
reply by Email, snail mail, or telephone.  I will make any
sensible arrangements to receive input.

Thanks in advance.

Charles Wetherell
Stardent Computer
880 W. Maude
Sunnyvale CA 94086
408-732-0400
cw@ardent.com