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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
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Subject: Re: Byte UNIX Benchmarks
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Date: 7 Mar 90 04:06:12 GMT
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In article <22943@mimsy.umd.edu> mjr@atreus.umiacs.umd.edu (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
>In article <1990Mar6.163657.7550@me.toronto.edu> yap@me.utoronto.ca (Davin Yap) writes:
>>Has anyone got a copy of the UNIX benchmarks discussed in the latest
>>issue of Byte magazine.
>
>	<snigger> are these benchmarks from the magazine that ues
>Sieve of Eratosthenes as a compiler benchmark, and a Loutus-1-2-3
>spreadsheet as a CPU benchmark ?

Sieve is not very interesting, but using a representative Lotus spreadsheet
calculation as a CPU benchmark is absolutely fine: it's certainly
relevant to what many people do with their computers.
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