Re: benchmarks (was Re: Progress on a Classpath mauve suite?)

[Chris Pickett]

Chris Pickett wrote:
> Perhaps a replacement for DaCapo and SPECjvm98 is not in order: this 
> would make comparison with other papers in the literature difficult and 
> just confuse the issue.  So, how about a good *companion* suite then?

By the way, Ashes was started as a free testing framework for Java 
benchmarks, so if we do anything, it should be examined closely as a 
starting point, in my opinion.  It needs a bit of cleaning up, but at 
least the overhead of building a testing framework has mostly been 
thought about and taken care of.  Of course Mauve or something related 
may be suitable/better for these purposes.

OK, I really have to go and run SPECjvm98 now, so I might drop out of 
this conversation somewhat.

Chris