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Subject: Re: [Q] What is Genius' speed?

Author: fca

Date: 09:57:34 08/14/98

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On August 13, 1998 at 14:10:20, Ian Osgood wrote:

>Robert Hyatt said:

>>Crafty is
>>going to be in the new SpecInt98 benchmark... it will be the first 64 bit
>>integer program and the first non-numerical algorithm that will really stress-
>>test compiler optimizers

>So soon hundreds of compiler writers around the world will be tuning their
>compilers to make Crafty run faster!  I LIKE IT!

How can you suggest that compiler authors would ever try to cheat by optimising
their compilers for specific benchmarks... it would never occur to them!  Or if
they recognise a timing loop, of course they would never scale down the number
of times the loop is traversed.

;-))

Kind regards

Federation of Compiler Authors



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