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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
- Subject: Re: rhosettastone anyone?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.131218.15938@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 13:12:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul20.220136.25192@gateway.novell.com>, bsparks@npd.Novell.COM (Bryan Sparks) writes:
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- | I propose the development of a benchmark program in C to measure the speed
- | of a system in performing *cryptographic* operations. An appropriate name
- | for this benchmark is the *rhosettastone*. This benchmark should include
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- I think thisi is a really poor overload of the name, since Brian
- Fitzgerald mentioned using that name for a natural language translation
- benchmark some years ago. That's probably a better match to the
- historical significance, too.
-
- I also question the assumption that this would be different than
- integer "bit fiddling" benchmarks like the grey to binary, binary to
- grey benchmark I posted to alt.sources some years ago. Not that lack of
- relevance ever stopped someone from writing a benchmark...
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise rational people, able to
- understand calculus, compound interest, and the income tax form, can
- continue to believe that poker is a game of chance.
-