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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  benchmark 
  n  1:  a  standard  by  which  something  can  be  measured  or  judged; 
  "his  painting  sets  the  benchmark  of  quality" 
  2:  a  surveyor's  mark  on  a  permanent  object  of  predetermined 
  position  and  elevation  used  as  a  reference  point  [syn:  {bench 
  mark}] 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  benchmark  n.  [techspeak]  An  inaccurate  measure  of  computer 
  performance.  "In  the  computer  industry,  there  are  three  kinds  of  lies: 
  lies,  damn  lies,  and  benchmarks."  Well-known  ones  include  Whetstone, 
  Dhrystone,  Rhealstone  (see  {h}),  the  Gabriel  LISP  benchmarks  (see 
  {gabriel}),  the  SPECmark  suite,  and  LINPACK.  See  also  {machoflops}, 
  {MIPS},  {smoke  and  mirrors}. 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  benchmark 
 
    A  standard  program  or  set  of  programs  which  can  be 
  run  on  different  computers  to  give  an  inaccurate  measure  of 
  their  performance. 
 
  "In  the  computer  industry,  there  are  three  kinds  of  lies: 
  lies,  damn  lies,  and  benchmarks." 
 
  A  benchmark  may  attempt  to  indicate  the  overall  power  of  a 
  system  by  including  a  typical"  mixture  of  programs  or  it  may 
  attempt  to  measure  more  specific  aspects  of  performance,  like 
  graphics,  I/O  or  computation  (integer  or  {floating-point}). 
  Others  measure  specific  tasks  like  {rendering}  polygons, 
  reading  and  writing  files  or  performing  operations  on 
  matrices.  The  most  useful  kind  of  benchmark  is  one  which  is 
  tailored  to  a  user's  own  typical  tasks.  While  no  one 
  benchmark  can  fully  characterise  overall  system  performance, 
  the  results  of  a  variety  of  realistic  benchmarks  can  give 
  valuable  insight  into  expected  real  performance. 
 
  Benchmarks  should  be  carefully  interpreted,  you  should  know 
  exactly  which  benchmark  was  run  (name,  version);  exactly  what 
  configuration  was  it  run  on  (CPU,  memory,  compiler  options, 
  single  user/multi-user,  peripherals,  network);  how  does  the 
  benchmark  relate  to  your  workload? 
 
  Well-known  benchmarks  include  {Whetstone},  {Dhrystone}, 
  {Rhealstone}  (see  {h}),  the  {Gabriel  benchmarks}  for  {Lisp}, 
  the  {SPECmark}  suite,  and  {LINPACK}. 
 
  See  also  {machoflops},  {MIPS},  {smoke  and  mirrors}. 
 
  {Usenet}  newsgroup:  {news:comp.benchmarks}. 
 
  {A  database  of  some  benchmark  results 
  (http://netlib2.cs.utk.edu/performance/html/PDSreports.html)}. 
 
  [{Jargon  File}] 
 
  (1999-10-12)




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