SPECMARK
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The average of a set of floating-point andinteger SPEC benchmark results.While the old average SPECmark89 has been popular with theindustry and the press, SPEC has intentionally *not* definedan average "SPECmark92" over all CPU benchmarks of the1992 suites (CINT92 and CFP92), for the following reasons:With 6 integer (CINT92) and 14 floating-point (CFP92)benchmarks, the average would be biased too much towardfloating-point. Customers' workloads are different, someinteger-only, some floating-point intensive, some mixed.Current processors have developed their strengths in a morediverse way (some more emphasizing integer performance, somemore floating-point performance) than in 1989.Some SPECmark results are available here(ftp://ftp.cdf.toronto.edu/pub/spectable).See also SPECint92, SPECfp92, SPECrate_int92,SPECrate_fp92.
By Denis Howe