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From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Con Kolivas <conman@kolivas.net>
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Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] Corrected gcc3.2 v gcc2.95.3 contest results
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On Mon Sep 23, 2002 at 08:30:21PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> Yes you make a very valid point and something I've been stewing over privately
> for some time. contest runs benchmarks in a fixed order with a "priming" compile
> to try and get pagecaches etc back to some sort of baseline (I've been trying
> hard to make the results accurate and repeatable). 

It would sure be nice for this sortof test if there were
some sort of a "flush-all-caches" syscall...

 -Erik

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