Measuring and reporting performance (contd.)

• What do you test the systems with?

• Workloads?

• Synthetic benchmarks : Dhrystone and whetstone

• Realworld programs : TeX, Spice, gcc, grep

• Kernels (part of) : Linpack, Livermore loops

• Toy benchmarks: Quicksort, 8-queen/n-Queen

• Benchmark suites : SPEC 92 . Look at Fig.1.9 for more details.

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