Factors Causing Unexpected Variations in Ada Benchmarks.

Abstract

One of the goals of the Ada Embedded Systems Testbed (AEST) Project is to assess the readiness of the Ada programming language and Ada tools for developing embedded system. The benchmarking and instrumentation subgroup within AEST Project is running various suites of Ada benchmarks to obtain data on the real-time performance of Ada on a number of different target systems. The purpose of this report is to categorize the factors have been observed, while others are more speculative in nature. All these factors should be understood if accurate, comparable, and repeatable performance data are to be produced by Ada benchmarks. Keywords: Compilers; Timing anomalies; System software effects; Hardware effects.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA187231

Entities

People

  • Neal Altman

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Compilers
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Embedded Systems
  • High Level Languages
  • Instrumentation
  • Language
  • Machine Languages
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Software Development
  • System Software

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Software Engineering.