karplus@ce.ucsc.edu (Kevin Karplus) (02/21/91)
Undoubtedly everyone by now is glad that the awful "bc" benchmark is gone. I just want to say that running it on my SLC and getting ridiculously slow numbers finally resulted in the following: We installed a newer version of the CPU prom on ararat this morning, Feb 20. Even "useless" benchmarks that give ridiculous results can be useful for pointing out problems. Kevin Karplus