An overview of common benchmarks
- 1 December 1990
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Computer
- Vol. 23 (12) , 65-75
- https://doi.org/10.1109/2.62094
Abstract
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.Keywords
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