From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Sun Jan 04 1998 - 19:48:21 EST
><<I would rather rely on Drystones and Whetstones, since they
>do more of what I'm looking for. The SI benchmark seems akward, and
>more of something a WinDO$ fanatic would use.
>>>
>
>Drystone is known to be a completely broken benchmark, and no one should
>rely on it for anything (broken means that a compiler can easily subvert
>the test, and many compilers do).
>
>Whetstone is a little more reliable if you are measuring floating-point
>performance, but gives a completely inadequate reflection of cacehe
>effects. The livermore loops are probably much more reliable, or
>the new Spec suite.
>
But what if you run something like Linux or OS/2? Not everyone uses
Micro$ofts' bloatware, so we need different benchmarks.
Just my 2 cents.
Paul
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