pkgsrc/benchmarks/bytebench/DESCR

BYTE's UNIX benchmarking suite is small enough to port easily to any UNIX
system, yet diverse and flexible enough to be useful for a wide spectrum of
benchmarking requirements.  Besides, they're in the public domain, so they
can be obtained for little, if any, cost.  What better reason do you need to
use them?
Add new pkg for bytebench-3.6 BYTE Magazine's Public Domain benchmark for UNIX 1998-08-30 19:35:57 +02:00			`BYTE's UNIX benchmarking suite is small enough to port easily to any UNIX`
			`system, yet diverse and flexible enough to be useful for a wide spectrum of`
Update bytebench to 4.1.0. Pkgsrc changes from the previous package include moving the state directory for bytebench to /var/benchmarks instead of trying to keep state in ${PREFIX}/share/bytebench. Distribution changes from version 3.6 include: * Double precision Whetstone instead of the old "double" benchmark. * Removal of some obsolete files. * "system" suite adds shell8. * perlbench and poll added as "exhibition" (non-index) benchmarks. * Minor change to fstime.c to fix overflow problems on fast machines. * A lot more operating system-oriented tests into the index. * Many tests rewritten to be more relevant for modern processors. * New baseline: SPARCstation 20-61 with 128 MB RAM, a SPARC Storage Array, and Solaris 2.3 2002-01-09 12:24:36 +01:00			`benchmarking requirements. Besides, they're in the public domain, so they`
			`can be obtained for little, if any, cost. What better reason do you need to`
			`use them?`