Open Letter to SPEC part Deux: The Cantrill Chronicles
Tuesday Feb 03, 2009
Just saw this this morning, a good writeup on a SPEC benchmark.
Bryan Cantrill writes:
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"The result is such a deformed monstrosity that -- like the index case of some horrific new pathogen -- its only remaining utility lies on the autopsy table: by dissecting SPEC SFS and understanding how it has failed, we can seek to understand deeper truths about benchmarks and their failure modes.
http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/entry/eulogy_for_a_benchmark
Basically I think there are some very good SPEC & TPC benchmarks, but I think there is also some partisanship that needs to be removed to just do the right thing for the industry. See my previous posting for some ideas on good things to do.
I've covered the problems with ageing TPC-C, but maybe I should have used the same language that Bryan used. 
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Short-stroking 224 15K RPM drives is the equivalent of fueling a dragster with nitromethane -- it is top performance at a price so high as to be useless off the dragstrip.
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