Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!mcdchg!mcdphx!udc!preece From: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece) Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore Subject: Re: SPEC benchmarks Message-ID: Date: 27 Feb 90 16:01:37 GMT References: <77476@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com Organization: Motorola MCD, Urbana Design Center Lines: 11 In-reply-to: george_jones@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu's message of 22 Feb 90 17:37:47 GMT SPEC (System Performance Evaluation Consortium, I think), is a multivendor effort to produce benchmarks that are well-defined and meaningful (to the extent that any benchmarks other than your own applications can ever be useful). They publish both results on individual components of the benchmark set and a single figure (the SPECmark) combining the results. All caveats regarding the usefulness of any single measure of performance need to be applied. -- scott preece motorola/mcd urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 uucp: uunet!uiucuxc!udc!preece, arpa: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com