Date   : Mon, 18 Jul 1994 10:14:38 EST
From   : Stephen Quan <quan@...>
Subject: Re: benchmarks

On Sun, 17 Jul 1994, James Fidell wrote:
> > It strikes me that we would probably find a set of benchmarks useful
> > for profiling emulators, for comparing them with each other and for
> > comparing them with the real thing.

Chris Rae Writes
> I'm not sure that I'm right in this but hang on a tick - aren't you the 
> only one who's got one working James?  ;-)

No, you don't need a complete emulator to test it.  We can run simple
tests such as that 256^3 loop and see how long the emulator runs.
A few good things would be the fragment of assembly code that was used
to test the emulator and the platform the emulator was running on.
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