SPEC ratio

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

SPEC ratio

   <benchmark> Results for each individual {benchmark} of the
   {SPEC} benchmark suites, for example {CINT92} and {CFP92},
   expressed as the ratio of the wall clock time to execute one
   single copy of the benchmark, compared to a fixed "SPEC
   reference time", which was chosen early-on as the execution
   time on a {VAX 11/780}.

   See also {SPEC rate}.

   (1994-11-14)