Timing Variation in Dual Loop Benchmarks

October 1987 • Technical Report

Neal Altman, Nelson W. Weiderman

This report disproves one of the major assumptions of dual loop benchmark testing by testing two bare computers with Ada test programs.

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Software Engineering Institute

CMU/SEI Report Number

CMU/SEI-87-TR-021

Abstract

Benchmarks that measure time values using a standard system clock often employ a dual loop design. One of the important assumptions of this design is that textually identical loop statements will take the same amount of time to execute. This assumption was tested on two bare computers with Ada test programs and has been demonstrated to be inaccurate in these specific test cases.

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SEI

Altman, Neal; & Weiderman, Nelson. Timing Variation in Dual Loop Benchmarks. CMU/SEI-87-TR-021. Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. 1987. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=10335

IEEE

Altman. Neal, and Weiderman. Nelson, "Timing Variation in Dual Loop Benchmarks," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Report CMU/SEI-87-TR-021, 1987. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=10335

APA

Altman, Neal., & Weiderman, Nelson. (1987). Timing Variation in Dual Loop Benchmarks (CMU/SEI-87-TR-021). Retrieved September 23, 2021, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=10335

CHI

Neal Altman, & Nelson Weiderman. Timing Variation in Dual Loop Benchmarks (CMU/SEI-87-TR-021). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1987. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=10335

MLA

Altman, Neal., & Weiderman, Nelson. 1987. Timing Variation in Dual Loop Benchmarks (Technical Report CMU/SEI-87-TR-021). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=10335

BibTex

@techreport{AltmanTimingVariation1987,
title={Timing Variation in Dual Loop Benchmarks},
author={Neal Altman and Nelson Weiderman},
year={1987},
number={CMU/SEI-87-TR-021},
institution={Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University},
address={Pittsburgh, PA},
url={http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=10335} }

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