A Benchmark Test for Systems Implementation Languages
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This distribution is currently being put together and will be in a
more polished state in due course.

The file bench.tgz contains a benchmark program translated into
various languages. It was designed in 1980 to test the efficiency of
implementations of programming languages.  There is also a ZIP version
of the distribution in bench.zip.

The files and directories in bench.tar.gz can be extracted by a
command such as the following:

      tar zxvf bench.tgz

This will create a unix makefile and the directory src containing
directories for the different programming languages into which the
benchmark program has been translated.

There is some documentation in src/doc.  This README file is in
src/doc/README. A description of the benchmark test itself in
src/doc/info and some test results are in src/doc/results.

Please feel free to re-implement this benchmark in any language you
choose.  I would be happy to incorporate such tranlations into this
distribution together with their timing/size results.

        
Martin Richards
18 December 1998
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