1 lmbench is a micro-benchmark suite designed to focus attention
2 on the basic building blocks of many common system applications,
3 such as databases, simulations, software development, and
4 networking. In almost all cases, the individual tests are
5 the result of analysis and isolation of a customer's actual
6 performance problem. These tools can be, and currently are,
7 used to compare different system implementations from different
8 vendors. The tools have been and continue to be used by processor
9 designers. In several cases, the benchmarks have uncovered
10 previously unknown bugs and design flaws. lmbench includes an
11 extensible database of results from systems current as of late 1995.