below On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:41 PM, <sampsa at mac.com> wrote: I found WHETSTONE.C Hack, cough -- a notoriously bad benchmark and has been gamed more times that I want to try to count (including by a number of my employers). specint (and >>maybe<< specfp) from the old days is probably what you want -- google in your friend. FYI: It now costs $800 and it is part of what is called CPU2006 but for your purposes I suspect specint will go a long way. I'm not sure specfp would be as much use, unless you really are trying to replace and old machine / old binary and it used the native FP hardware. ---- from SPEC's current home page: http://www.spec.org/spec/ SPEC's Background The System Performance Evaluation Cooperative, now named the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), was founded in 1988 by a small number of workstation vendors who realized that the marketplace was in desperate need of realistic, standardized performance tests. The key realization was that an ounce of honest data was worth more than a pound of marketing hype. SPEC has grown to become one of the more successful performance standardization bodies with more than 60 member companies. SPEC publishes several hundred different performance results each quarter spanning a variety of system performance disciplines.