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Re: Benchmarking C compilers for embedded systems

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On 09/22/11 07:12 PM, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> Am 21.09.2011 11:06, schrieb Ian Collins:
>> On 09/21/11 07:40 PM, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
>>> Am 20.09.2011 09:50, schrieb Abhishek:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Have you tried Coremark from EEMBC (www.coremark.org)?
>>>> It is available for free.
>>>> The other benchmarking suites from EEMBC require you to pay small
>>>> membership fee i guess.
>>>
>>> I now did, however the license is a problem:
>>> 1) The license. I can understand when benchmarking organizations don't
>>> distribute older versions of their benchmarks and no longer accept
>>> reults generated using an old version, like SPEC does. However the
>>> Coremark license explicitly forbids you from just running or even
>>> keeping a copy of older versions: You loose all rights to them each time
>>> a new version is released.
>>>
>>> I'll probably use it anyway and just hope they don't release a new
>>> version anytime soon. Still, I'm looking for further benchmarks. The
>>> Contiki OS seems perfect, but I'd like to find more of that kind.
>>
>> What about your own code?
>>
>
> I'd like to get results that are useful to other people as well. I
> intend to use some of my code as one of the benchmarks benchmark, but in
> general I'd prefer to use more generally accepted stuff.

Every target and code base combination will behave differently, even on 
different members of the same processor family.  This makes general 
benchmarks useless for embedded systems.

-- 
Ian Collins

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Benchmarking C compilers for embedded systems Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2011-09-19 19:43 +0200
  Re: Benchmarking C compilers for embedded systems David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2011-09-19 22:10 +0200
    Re: Benchmarking C compilers for embedded systems Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2011-09-22 09:16 +0200
      Re: Benchmarking C compilers for embedded systems David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2011-09-22 10:26 +0200
  Re: Benchmarking C compilers for embedded systems Abhishek <abhishekmathur.10d@gmail.com> - 2011-09-20 00:50 -0700
    Re: Benchmarking C compilers for embedded systems Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2011-09-21 09:40 +0200
      Re: Benchmarking C compilers for embedded systems Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-21 21:06 +1200
        Re: Benchmarking C compilers for embedded systems Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2011-09-22 09:12 +0200
          Re: Benchmarking C compilers for embedded systems Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-22 19:41 +1200
  Re: Benchmarking C compilers for embedded systems Arlet Ottens <usenet+5@c-scape.nl> - 2011-09-22 10:34 +0200
  Re: Benchmarking C compilers for embedded systems Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2011-09-30 08:11 -0400

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