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Re: Request for Steering Committee: official release criteria for4.x
- From: "Giovanni Bajo" <giovannibajo at libero dot it>
- To: "Dan Kegel" <dank at kegel dot com>,"Steven Bosscher" <stevenb at suse dot de>
- Cc: "Aaron W. LaFramboise" <aaronavay62 at aaronwl dot com>,"GCC Mailing List" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:32:15 +0100
- Subject: Re: Request for Steering Committee: official release criteria for4.x
- References: <41846A0E.9040606@kegel.com> <4184797E.4000907@aaronwl.com> <200410311220.51442.stevenb@suse.de> <4184F559.8090600@kegel.com>
Dan Kegel wrote:
>>> Is there any way for Joe GCC User to get a copy of SPEC? Or is SPEC
>>> proprietary or secret or otherwise non-free?
>>
>> SPEC is not free.
>
> However, it is made up of a bunch of little programs,
> some of which are free. We can probably scrape together
> a free subset of something very much like SPECcpu, using
> SPECcpu as a guide.
That was my plan for make check-performance: having something like SPEC within
GCC's own testsuite which could be used by all the developers to check the
performance. It does not need to be close to SPECcpu itself though.
Giovanni Bajo