An overview of common benchmarks
Weicker, R.P.
Computer
Volume 23, Issue 12, Dec 1990 Page(s):65 - 75
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/2.62094
Summary:The three most often used benchmarks are characterized in detail
and users are warned about a number of pitfalls. Two of them, Whetstone
and Drystone, are synthetic benchmarks: they were written solely for
benchmarking purposes and perform no useful computation. Linpack was
distilled out of a real, purposeful program that is now used as a
benchmark. Some other benchmarks, namely Livermore Fortran Kernels,
Stanford Small Programs Benchmark Set, EDN benchmarks, Sieve of
Eratosthenes, Rhealstone and SPEC benchmarks, are briefly considered.
Non-CPU influences in benchmark performance are discussed
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