🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4jfs0h$mer@daily-planet.nodak.edu>,
Nathanael J Henderson <nahender@prairie.NoDak.edu> wrote:
>Gregory L Hansen (ghansen@isc.sjsu.edu) wrote:
>
>: Instead of arguing about which platform is faster,  let's prove it with
>: our own benchmarks, the UseMarks.  We'll publish standardized programs
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>
>   You *couldn't* have posted this with a strait face!  :-)  To think 
>that ONE loop using only a handful of operations is anything aproaching a 
>credible benchmark!  :-)

Maybe I should have mentioned this before, but I want to make sure 
everyone understands I am anything but a professional programmer.  I'm a 
rank amateur.  I wouldn't know a good benchmarck if it spat out of my 
printer.

But after all this arguing about other people's benchmarks, it seemed 
like a great idea if we had our own.  But I thought it would be kind of 
lame if I just suggested it and didn't do anything to start things 
going.  Every single person is very welcome to criticize, introduce their 
own tests, even change the basic format and scoring, in productive ways 
that I would not have suspected.  In fact, I'm counting on it.  I just 
want to make sure everyone using them understand exactly where they came 
from and can reproduce them on any machine they can get their hands on.  
I'm hoping our tests will be done on more hardware than the others have 
been, too.