Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 11:42:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: njensen@salsa.habaneros.com (Neil C. Jensen) Cc: blewis@vet.purdue.edu, branson@widomaker.com, njensen@salsa.habaneros.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'm almost afraid to ask, but.... Message-ID: <199606141842.LAA06392@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <01BB5975.3A3024E0@jalapeno.habaneros.com> from "Neil C. Jensen" at Jun 13, 96 10:11:08 pm
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Neil C. Jensen wrote: > > along the same lines - what's more important in serving up web documents > and basic *text* database functions, integer or fp performance? Seems to me > like integer performance is probably the more relevant. I'm trying to make > some sense of all the SPEC numbers I'm looking at... web servers do not do floating point. with the exception of certain unsual applications floating point is less than 1% of code. integer is everything! SPEC 92 has been repudiated by SPEC. SPEC 95 numbers are kinda rare (Unix Review still does SPEC 92 :) SPEC 95 will be obsolete in a few years you need a scaleable benchmark. use: http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/scl/HINT/HINT.html jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB
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