5.1. Extent of Use of CFP2000
Figure 6 compares the adoption rate of CINT2000 to
CFP2000. CFP2000 is used less (as expected) and less
benchmarks are used per paper. A median value of 5 bench-
marks are used by papers that choose to evaluate CFP2000.
This is 36% (5/14) of the suite much less than the 58%
(7/12) of CINT2000. Table 6 shows the most popular
CFP2000 benchmarks used. The rankings can be explained
by the following:
• The four most popular benchmarks are written in C.
These four were the only ones that the MinneSPEC
team managed to port to the PISA version of Sim-
plescalar.
• Of the following five benchmarks, four are written in
Fortran 77 and were present in CFP95 (except lucas,
the only anomaly).