A Benchmark Test for Systems Implementation Languages ----------------------------------------------------- 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 *********************************************************************** Computer Laboratory http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mr/ New Museums Site mr@cl.cam.ac.uk Pembroke Street tel: 01223 334633 Cambridge CB2 3QG fax: 01223 334678 ***********************************************************************