If only there was some sort of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation out there with a wide variety of CPU intensive benchmarks to evaluate architectures a

If only there was some sort of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation out there with a wide variety of CPU intensive benchmarks to evaluate architectures and compilers. Not getting a SPEC license makes this strictly amateur hour. And yes, I know compilers are tuned for SPEC, but you'd at least get repeatable high-quality results on a wide range of different programs. SPEC isn't necessarily representative of every program out there, but his weird (and small) collection of microbenchmarks and random fragments of code is even less interesting than SPEC.