SPECmark

    The average of a set of floating-point and
   integer SPEC benchmark results.

   While the old average SPECmark89 has been popular with the
   industry and the press, SPEC has intentionally *not* defined
   an average "SPECmark92" over all CPU benchmarks of the
   1992 suites (CINT92 and CFP92), for the following reasons:
   With 6 integer (CINT92) and 14 floating-point (CFP92)
   benchmarks, the average would be biased too much toward
   floating-point.  Customers' workloads are different, some
   integer-only, some floating-point intensive, some mixed.
   Current processors have developed their strengths in a more
   diverse way (some more emphasizing integer performance, some
   more floating-point performance) than in 1989.

   Some SPECmark results are available <here>.

   See also SPECint92, SPECfp92, SPECrate_int92,
   SPECrate_fp92.

   (1994-11-15)