On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 03:51:19PM -0800, Crispin Cowan wrote: > That's interesting. There is a need for a good, standard, open source > system macrobenchmark. Lots of people (WireX included) use various forms > of "build the kernel from source" as a benchmark, but because the kernel > changes, the benchmark is only useful for relative comparisons, i.e. I > can use it to show that the Foo feature imposes 4% overhead, but you > can't go off and run another benchmark to compare your results to mine. > So it is a very good thing that someone is working to standardize it. Sorry, contest is only a "relative" benchmark, not an absolute one. greg k-h _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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