Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 19:18:34 +0100 From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/benchmarks/bytebench - Imported sources Message-ID: <199601021818.AA13237@Sysiphos> In-Reply-To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) "Re: cvs commit: ports/benchmarks/bytebench - Imported sources" (Jan 2, 18:27)
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On Jan 2, 18:27, Greg Lehey wrote: } Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/benchmarks/bytebench - Imported sources } Stefan Esser writes: } > } > se 96/01/01 14:57:37 } > } > Branch: benchmarks/bytebench 1.1.1 } > Log: } > The BYTE benchmark suite, very popular under Linux users as it seems. } > (See: http://www.silkroad.com/bass/linux/bm.html for results ...) } > } > This is another benchmark that tries to give a single performance } > number, but without giving much thought to proper weighting of the } > performance numbers. So: Please handle with care ... } } Is this this nonsense that iX publishes? Do we really want it? It's } one of the most meaningless benchmarks I've ever seen (along with all } the others that iX publishes). Yes, it is that useless (from a technical perspective) benchmark, but it might be of some use for marketing reasons :) (For example, the 'dc' test completes within 0.16 seconds on my 486DX2/66. And this is mainly startup overhead. For this reason many of the Linux results were obtained using a statically compiled 'dc' binary for a better ranking :-) As we all know, there are soem misconceptions about *BSD, often maintained and distributed by the Linux crowd. One of those is, that FreeBSD comes without any reasonable documentation at all, and you (Greg) are one of those working on that. Another one is, that Linux is THE lightweight PC operating system, and we might as well just send some of our results to the Linux Benchmark archive site at Solkroad.Com (they also have some old Sparc and HP results). I had tried the Byte benchmark some time ago on my 486DX2/66, and found that it competes with Linux DX4/100 results (and low end Pentium systems :). If the transatlantic lines would not have been so fast on the new years day, I wouldn't have bothered to make this a port :) A few of the Byte benchmark components are not that bad. Only the use of the "average" to define a ranking is quite silly. The average is dominated by the single test component that gave the best (relative) result. But we might get some nice average results, send them to the benchmark archive, and get some good press this way :) Regards, STefan
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