Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!apple!oliveb!amdahl!amdcad!crackle.amd.com!ravi From: ravi@crackle.amd.com (Ravi Chitturi) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Application specific benchmarking Message-ID: <27561@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 29 Sep 89 17:20:53 GMT Sender: news@amdcad.AMD.COM Reply-To: ravi@crackle.amd.com (Ravi Chitturi) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Sunnyvale CA Lines: 28 Few netusers have asked me to post the same article in a more readable format, so here it is. I would like to start a discussion on the topic of "Benchmarking RISC/CISC machines for embedded control". Those of you who attended 1989 microprocessor forum would agree that currently available benchmarks provided by most chip vendors are very ambiguous at the least and are of little practical use to the customers per se. As things stand, it is hard to distinguish the truth from marketing hype. I would suggest creation of application specific benchmarks e.g.,benchmarking programs for embedded control. Currently all chip makers can pick and choose only the programs that run well on their machines. This makes every chip look equally good, but with different sets of benchmarking programs, and this confuses the customer. It would be nice to see standard benchmarking programs for embedded controllers. We may have to create 2 or 3 sets of benchmarking programs to cover the entire embedded control spectrum adequately. Ravi DISCLAIMER : Above mentioned comments and opinions are solely mine and not AMD's.