5. CINT2000 vs. CFP2000
As of March 23rd, 2003, 376 CINT2000 and 379
CFP2000 results have been submitted to SPEC. In the six
computer architecture conferences surveyed in this paper
82 papers have used CINT2000 and 52 papers have used
CFP2000. All the papers that include CINT2000, yet omit,
CFP2000 set their proposed enhancements in the context of
a general purpose processor, one that includes FP support.
The lack of CFP2000 results is mainly justified by the
claim that its code is easier to parallelize (at the instruction
and loop level) than the irregular code in CINT2000. This
focus is exhibited by the 22% (13/58) of datapath oriented
papers that use a majority of the CFP2000 or CFP95 suites
as opposed to the 69% (40/58) of datapath papers which use
a majority of CINT2000 or CINT95. This guided our em-
phasis on CINT2000 in the previous sections. In this section
we will briefly explore the extent of use of CFP2000.