On Aug 2, 2007, at 1:55 PM, Joseph Kowalski wrote: > Danek Duvall wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 04:38:08PM -0400, James Carlson wrote: >> >> >>> Given that it's a segregated collection of software, >>> >> >> Is there a good reason that it be segregated? I guess it'll be >> nice that >> the man page will be found without path-twiddling, but why not >> just have >> the executable(s) in /usr/bin? >> >> Danek >> > I'd **guess** that the potential of name-conflicts between > benchmarks is pretty > high. I think I've seen objects called "report" in more benchmarks > than not, and > a lot of benchmarks don't have a single object to control everything. > > That said, I'd like the project team to say more. >
We had originally planned on putting the executable 'filebench' in / usr/bin. After talking to Bart and Michael, we decided to go with / usr/benchmarks. This would give us a clear way of delivering reliable (compiled correctly) and meaningful benchmarks to our users. I think its a big win to have users go to /usr/benchmarks instead of www.google.com to do performance analysis. eric
