Request for Steering Committee: official release criteria for 4.x

[Jeffrey A Law]

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 06:23 -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Steven Bosscher wrote:
> > On Sunday 31 October 2004 06:34, Aaron W. LaFramboise 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.
Very true.  But one of the things that is particularly important
is the input vectors for the benchmarks.  

However, I don't think we can go wrong building a benchmark suite
based (when possible) on the same code as SPEC with our own
input vectors.

jeff