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Re: [GCC 3.x] Performance testing for QA
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: dewar at gnat dot com, kevina at gnu dot org
- Cc: Peter dot Sasi at t-systems dot co dot hu, aj at suse dot de, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org,tjw at omnigroup dot com
- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 16:56:39 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: [GCC 3.x] Performance testing for QA
<<Now of course doing things this blatantly would be considered cheating, but
in practice you can do things almost this outrageous in a much more
reserved and non-obvious way.
>>
By the way, some company made a video board for the PC that had a special
bit map built into the ROM that happened to be a string something like
"PC Video Font Benchmark Test" in some particular font, predecoded.
PC Magazine was not amused when they discovered this :-)