Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: SPECmarks
Message-ID: <1990Feb22.175317.12898@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <7393@pdn.paradyne.com> <76700146@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 90 17:53:17 GMT

In article <76700146@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>I don't disagree that you need to test a spectrum of operations; the
>SPEC benchmark is good in this respect.  But keeping SPEC large is a
>poor way to test for caching affects.

Why?  Most of the applications that people will be running are similarly
large.  Surely the way to test for caching effects on large programs is
to run large programs?
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