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From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: [Q]Ada benchmarking
Date: 1998/10/01
Date: 1998-10-01T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6v07pb$q4m$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.OSF.3.91.981001072342.13016B-100000@swlabj.msd.ray.com

In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.981001072342.13016B-100000@swlabj.msd.ray.com>,
  Mark Taube <mmt@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>  In the Oct 98 issue of Dr Dobbs, there is an article on Bench++ for
> benchmarking C++. The author mentions that it is derived from the Ada PIWG
> benchmark.
>
>   Is the Ada PIWG benchmark readily available on the internet?
>
>   Has anybody used this to compare compilers and/or platforms?


The answers to your questions are yes, and yes. The other source of benchmarks
is ACES, particularly the quicklook section which is relatively easy to run.

As benchmarks, these programs are somewhat useful, but like all benchmarks,
they can give highly misleading results, and you should not base much on
the results!

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-10-01  0:00 [Q]Ada benchmarking Mark Taube
1998-10-01  0:00 ` dewarr [this message]
1998-10-01  0:00 ` John J Cupak Jr
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