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- From: pnevmati@milhouse.cs.wisc.edu (Dionisios N. Pnevmatikatos)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: MIPS R4400
- Message-ID: <pnevmati.721375564@cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 06:06:04 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cs.pnevmati.721375564
- References: <lflj8pINN158@spim.mti.sgi.com> <lftam5INNgoi@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1992Nov9.210442.5149@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
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- bhandarkar@wrksys.enet.dec.com (Dileep Bhandarkar) writes:
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- >In article <lftam5INNgoi@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, walter@zarquon.Eng.Sun.COM (Walter Bays) writes...
- >>>In article <JCALLEN.92Nov6135200@marley.think.com> jcallen@marley.think.com (Jerry Callen) writes:
- >>>[I was surprised to see MIPS use SPEC 89 numbers...]
- >>
- >>I also wonder why you would use the old 89 suite. Was it that some of
- >>the new 92 benchmarks are too complicated to simulate, in particular
- >>026.compress and 072.sc? (I believe there are ways around the
- >>difficulties.) But even if SPECint92 was intractable, can't you at
- >>least simulate SPECfp92?
- >>
- >Simulation is slow and often difficult when a benchmark does I/O. It is a lot
- >easier to do 10 benchmarks that have been around for 3 years, than it is to do
- >20 relatively new ones. With SPEC89 numbers in detail, one can make reasonable
- >guesses at SPECint92 and SPECfp92.
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- >Dileep
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- Both SPECint89 and SPECint92 have IO calls. It's really not so hard to
- simulate the IO calls provided that the host machine runs the same OS as
- the simulated one. We have a R2000 simulator here at the UW-Madison that
- can simulate the entire SPEC benchmark suite (Both 89 and 92 :-).
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- -Dionisis
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