[comp.benchmarks] "useless" bc benchmark

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	We installed a newer version of the CPU prom on ararat this morning,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