🚀 go-pugleaf

Ehud Reiter and Eugene Miya both have good points.  I recently saw a
paper on the VAX 8700 from DEC and they presented their benchmark
results in a variety of ways, including something like:

TOP CAVEAT: I just typed in imaginary data points for illustration
-- THESE ARE NOT REAL RESULTS.

	4.0	ID
	4.5	IICFFDD
	5.0	IIICFFFDDD
	5.5	IIICCCFFFFDDDD
	6.0	IIIIICCCFFFFFDDD
	6.5	IIIIICCFFDD
	7.0	IIIICFFDD
	7.5	IIICFD
	8.0	I

BOTTOM CAVEAT: I just typed in imaginary data points for illustration
-- THESE ARE NOT REAL RESULTS.

They had something like 120 benchmarks, and presented these in the
above form, where "I" represented an integer benchmark, "C" Cobol,
"F" single-precision floating point, and "D" double-precision floating
point, etc.

I liked this presentation.  It really gives you a feel for how wide
the performance variation can be, even within members of the same
family.

Perhaps someone else can post a reference to this paper.