eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene Miya N.) (05/20/87)
In article <28200036@ccvaxa> Scott writes: > >I agree strongly with the need for more, and more representative, >benchmarks. One of the nice things about the Lisp world is having >a relatively standard set of benchmarks to talk about in comparing ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^? Oh yeah? >machines (though even there there are so many things not specified that >there is still romm to argue about whether your numbers are comparable). > >-- >scott preece >gould/csd - urbana >uucp: ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece >arpa: preece@gswd-vms B*S* Too arbitrary. The same goes for benchmarking non-LISP workstations. From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: --eugene miya NASA Ames Research Center eugene@ames-aurora.ARPA "You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?" "Send mail, avoid follow-ups. If enough, I'll summarize." {hplabs,hao,ihnp4,decwrl,allegra,tektronix,menlo70}!ames!aurora!eugene