Re: LMbench as gcc performance regression test?

Larry McVoy
2003-08-31T14:00:44Z

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 12:21:37AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> (There seems to be large variations in successive runs of LMBench
> when I try it, so it may take me a bit of work to get repeatable
> results.)

Other than the context switch part or anything based on it, that shouldn't
be true, it should be very stable.

I'm pretty convinced that the variations are due to different pages being
allocated and the result cache contention makes things bounce.
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