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To: Carlos Blanco who wrote (10602)6/29/1997 6:29:00 PM
From: Justin Banks   of 24154
 
Carlos -
Perhaps I'm not being specific enough. In order to tell whether Microsoft's VM truly implements the standard, it's not enough to know that it runs valid Java. To test it, you should really subject it to input validation testing, and verify that it rejects invalid Java. In other words, I can make something go really fast if I ignore parts of the spec. that the user doesn't see, but that doesn't mean I'm conforming to the standard. Intel was guilty of this in the (old) Water(?) part of the Spec benchmarks. They specifically tuned their compiler to compile out almost %70(?) of the code. While that seems to be okay because the output is still valid, it doesn't make it a fair comparison, and it doesn't make it right, and it doesn't make it a valid benchmark.

-justinb
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