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[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < Pine.BSF.3.96.971007153646.19846L-100000@vespucci.advicom.net >you
 write:
  > The "universal" cap is useful and important.  it may be enough for
  > c-torture but other freely available test suites may not be as good a
  > fit.
So true.

  > I have spent a lot of time running the Ada Compiler Validation suite over
  > the past year or so on CPU simulators.   There is a fairly large
  > difference between the longest and shortest tests in this suite.  I have
  > always regretted that I have had to use a single time/instruction limit
  > for all tests in the suite.
Simulators certainly complicate the problem.

We're currently using a pretty gross hack --- we set slow_simulator or
some such, which causes some of the bigger tests in libstdc++/libio to
be scaled down or skipped.

jeff