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

[Chris Pickett]

Chris Pickett wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, I looked on our homepage, and this link isn't obviously there 
(the software isn't exactly maintained at this point):

http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~bdufou1/ashes2/

I promise to stop spamming the CP list now...

Chris