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Date: Sun 05-Dec-1991 10:50:32 From: wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) Subject: Enlighten me: MIPS, VAX MIPS, SPECmarks OK. I'm the one saying all the time that MIPS or whatever don't count and that real-life situations do. Fine. But I want to know more. i have seen serious debate on the value of Processor MIPS, Standardized MIPS, SPECmarks etc and I would like to know more. Can people enlighten me or tell me where I can read about it? I give you one example of a question that bothers me: Do SPECmarks account for the efficiency of the OS? That is, the difference you feel when working on a system that has more difficulty in handling VM or context switches than another. The compiler may go fast in certain circuimstances but what does that tell you on the time that is lost with paging or timesharing... E-mail please.
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