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>Several people have made the point that SPEC is supposed to be a
>"real-world" program benchmark, consisting of "today's" programs.  
>My understanding is that a benchmark is a standard, just as a 1-meter
>bar of platinum stored in France is a standard.  Computers are
>measured by the SPEC standard.  Standards should be timeless. 

You have your timeless standards for computer systems performance
- things like "do 1E9 multiplies of random numbers".
Trouble is, the timeless standards only measure a few dimensions
of systems performance, and computer architects keep inventing new
dimensions that make the timeless standards irrelevant.
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Andy Glew, aglew@uiuc.edu