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In <41bd0f$k3k@bug.rahul.net> Bill Moyer <ttk@rahul.net> writes:

>In article <danpop.809044652@rscernix>, Dan Pop <Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
>>
>>Hardware design texts aren't the "industry".  It is very easy to point
>>out the problems of a certain solution.  It's considerably more difficult
>>to come with a better solution.  Until now, nobody came with a better
>>solution than the SPEC benchmarks to the problem of evaluating the
>>relative performances of computers as general purpose systems.  If you
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>>don't hear very often of the SPEC data for a Cray, it is because a Cray
>>is not a general purpose system.  Most Unix workstations and servers are.
>>
>>If you have a better solution for this problem, please don't keep it for
>>yourself :-)
>
>  Anyone who's taken high school calculus could sit in on an Algorithms
>Analysis class (CIS101 at UCSC, where I took it -- the upper-division
>computer science course was a pre-req for any other CIS course).  Then
>you can thumb through the reference text for the system you're interested
>in, look at the algorithms used by the application in question, click a
>few keys on your calculator, and know to a very precise degree what kind
>of performance you can expect out of that application on that system.

Are you sure you have provided the solution to the right problem?

Dan
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