benchmark
enchmark> A standard program or s et of programs which can b e run on diff er ent comput ers to giv e an inaccurat e m easur e of th eir p erformanc e. "In th e comput er industry, th er e ar e thr ee kinds of li es: li es, damn li es, and b enchmarks." A b enchmark may att empt to indicat e th e ov erall pow er of a syst em by including a "typical" mixtur e of programs or it may att empt to m easur e mor e sp ecific asp ects of p erformanc e, lik e graphics, I/O or computation (int eg er or ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=floating-point">floating-point). Oth ers m easur e sp ecific tasks lik e ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=rendering">rendering polygons, r eading and writing fil es or p erforming op erations on matric es. Th e most us eful kind of b enchmark is on e which is tailor ed to a us er' s own typical tasks. Whil e no on e b enchmark can fully charact eris e ov erall syst em p erformanc e, th e r esults of a vari ety of r ealistic b enchmarks can giv e valuabl e insight into exp ect ed r eal p erformanc e. B enchmarks should b e car efully int erpr et ed, you should know exactly which b enchmark was run (nam e, v ersion) exactly what configuration was it run on (CPU, m emory, compil er options, singl e us er/multi-us er, p eriph erals, n etwork) how do es th e b enchmark r elat e to your workload? W ell-known b enchmarks includ e ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Whetstone">Whetstone, ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Dhrystone">Dhrystone, ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Rhealstone">Rhealstone (s ee ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=h">h), th e ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Gabriel benchmarks">Gabriel benchmarks for ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Lisp">Lisp, th e ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=SPeCmark">SPeCmark suit e, and ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=LINPACK">LINPACK. S ee also ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=machoflops">machoflops, ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=MIPS">MIPS, ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=smoke and mirrors">smoke and mirrors. ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Usenet">Usenet n ewsgroup: ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=news:comp.benchmarks">news:comp.benchmarks. ef="http://netlib.org/benchweb/">Tennessee BenchWeb . [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Jargon File">Jargon File] (2002-03-26) e="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-style:dashed; padding:5px;" align="left">In addition suitable contents: [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=31">2 ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=134">= ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=218">ACK ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=262">ad ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=411">ai ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=433">al ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=544">am ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=592">an ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=740">ar ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=743">arc ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=759">arg ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=800">as ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=838">aspect ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=894">at ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=1025">B ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=1026">b ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=1181">be ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=1535">br ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=1695">by ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=1708">C ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=1724">ca ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=1863">cat ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=1896">cc ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=2001">ch ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=2018">char ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=2019">character ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=2078">chm ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=2099">ci ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=2138">cl ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=2247">co ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=2330">com ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=2429">compiler ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=2491">computer ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=2545">con ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=2767">CP ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=2786">CPU ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=2900">cu ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=2976">D ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=3151">de ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=3347">Dhrystone ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=3371">diff ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=3436">ding ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=3565">do ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=3752">du ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=3834">e ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=3865">ec ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=3896">ed ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=3929">ee ] [ 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ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7023">ld ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7091">Lex ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7107">li ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7190">LINPACK ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7203">Lisp ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7220">list ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7260">load ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7399">ls ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7410">lt ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7415">lu ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7441">ly ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7457">M ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7463">ma ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7485">machoflops ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7582">man ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7710">measure ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7749">memory ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7971">MIPS ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7981">mirror ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8029">mn ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8032">mo ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8040">mod ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8079">module ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8167">mp ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8228">ms ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8258">mu ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8384">N ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8386">na ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8460">nc ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8472">ne ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8488">net ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8533">network ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8599">news ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8602">newsgroup ] [ 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ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=9908">pr ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=10023">program ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=10115">PS ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=10144">pt ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=10253">query ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=10364">rc ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=10385">re ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=10390">real ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=10548">rendering ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=10589">rete ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=10767">ro ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=10887">ru ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=10892">run ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=10918">S ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=11150">se ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=11281">set ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=11307">sg ] [ 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ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=13274">var ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=13310">ve ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=13335">version ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=13632">Web ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=13692">Whetstone ] [ ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=13877">ws ]
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