Benchmarks

[Joe Buck]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:17:05AM -0400, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
> Toon Moene wrote:
> > OK, that as much sums it up - we need free software benchmarks.
> 
> I would be more than happy to work on such an effort. It's always a good
> idea to take control of one's own fate; in this case, GCC can only
> benefit from a "free-as-in-speech" suite of benchmarks.
> 
> Is this list the best place to discuss this? I could put together a
> rough draft of what people have suggested, and open it for discussion.

I think it's on topic: the charter is that this list is for development
and testing of gcc, and that includes performance testing.  If the volume
gets large a new list could be created.