Re: The Ada Compiler Evaluation System

[Laurent.Guerby@enst-bretagne.fr (Laurent Guerby)]

Robert Dewar writes
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: P.S. on another matter, I think the important distinction that Gary was
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   Hum, I don't think Gary is posting here ;-).

: trying to make was that you can pass or fail the ACVC tests, they are
: obvjective in that sense. You cannot pass or fail the ACEC tests -- any
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: more than you can pass or fail the SpecMark (which incidentally is
: a TERRIBLY misleading indication of microprocessor performance, as
: everyone in the industry knows, but everyone keeps advertising it,
: because users do indeed depend on it -- this is one of the well known
: problems with standard performance tests).
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   I think the new name is ACES (fusion ?). 

   Another thing about evaluation  (performance) is the  configuration
problem. It's hard to guess from synthetic benchmarks what will be the
performance   of your   application       on your site     with   your
configuration. The only way to  have a reliable  answer is to test  it
yourself on your site (of course there's a price for it).

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