| This is about BYTE's beta version of the native-algorithm benchmark | |
| December 16, 1996: | |
| The source for DOS is obtainable at http://www.byte.com/bmark/bmark.htm | |
| Linux adaptation written by Uwe F. Mayer <mayer@tux.org> | |
| February 7, 1997: | |
| added -DSOLARIS flag to support solaris | |
| November 11, 1997: | |
| added index split suggested by Andrew D. Balsa | |
| re-baselined to a Linux machine | |
| added checking of CPU-type at run-time (cpuinfo.c) | |
| increased maximal number of loops in some tests | |
| removed -DSOLARIS flag, works now automatically (this also removed the | |
| compiler warnings about redefined types and leads to a 20% faster | |
| code for "Bitfield" if compiled with -funroll-loops!) | |
| November 13-19, 1997: | |
| changed debugging information | |
| changed random number generator to be always 32 bits even on 64 bit OSs | |
| added data resets to Bitfield and Huffman | |
| created this Changes file | |
| added debug code for Bitfield | |
| December 6, 1997: | |
| got rid of cpuinfo.c | |
| added a RESULTS file | |
| December 7, 1997: | |
| fixed the statistical analysis used to compute the confidence coefficient | |
| fixed a bug in the DEBUG routine of "Assignment" | |
| December 11, 1997 | |
| added some entries to RESULTS | |