On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:28:29AM -0700, Lynn W. Taylor wrote:
> Unfortunately, at the end of the day, replacing the benchmark with a
> reference work unit is just replacing one arbitrary benchmark with a
> different arbitrary benchmark.
>
> The problem with the existing benchmark is that the benchmark code
> doesn't represent the instruction mix for the project.
>
> When you say "We'll use a specific s...@home work unit as a 'reference'
> work unit" you have the same problem: the instruction mix does not match
> any other project.
How about having multiple benchmarks: one floating-point intensive, one
data intensive etc., and let applications say "I'm 70% floating point,
10% integer and 20% memory intensive"? You could even have different
percentages per CPU type.
Gabor
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