From A Methodology for Benchmarking Java Grande Applications ACM Java Grande Meeting -- June 12-13 99. byJ.M. Bull(Presenter), L.A. smith, M.D. Westhead, D.S. Henty, R.A. Davey (EPCC)
Would like to enforce a common format.
Not practical to make a benchmark extend an abstract benchmark class (no multiple inheritance). Best we can do is make it implement an interface.
For kernels and applications, the interface contains