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Empirical investigation of the effectiveness of several computer performance evaluation tools

Published: 01 September 1980 Publication History

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A number of tools exist for computer selection evaluation. The operational cost of applying these vary considerably as does the precision of the performance prediction. This paper compares the precision of several commonly used methods in a single test case, namely cycle time, instruction mix analysis and benchmarking.

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cover image ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review  Volume 9, Issue 3
Fall 1980
24 pages
ISSN:0163-5999
DOI:10.1145/1041883
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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 01 September 1980
Published in SIGMETRICS Volume 9, Issue 3

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  1. benchmark
  2. computer
  3. cycle time
  4. instruction mix
  5. performance evaluation

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