[Tinyos-devel] nesC concurrency semantics, volatiles, etc.

[John Regehr]

> Establishing such a set of metrics could lead to very directed improvement and
> optimization (e.g. spec). This has the benefit of leading to really deep
> technical excellence, but also has the drawback of sometimes leading a
> community to make those metrics themselves the end goal.

Interesting, a TinyOS benchmark suite would be pretty cool.  Certainly it 
would be a big help to my group.  Another project for everyone's back 
burners, maybe :).

The best way to make benchmarks robust is to make them resemble actual 
applications as closely as possible.  I don't expect that it would be that 
much work to instrument some T2 applications with performance counters, 
but creating realistic load-generating environments may be time consuming.

John