I was never a fan of XSLTMark because a lot of samples have a very
synthetic nature, although it didn't help that it was released by a
competitor at the time. As an alternative I created XSLTBench from
example uses gathered around the web in 2001, this is still the main
performance benchmark used on the Intel processors although we extended
it a couple of years back and also have a lot of customer cases we
benchmark against as well. You can find copies of XSLTBench around
although there is no official distribution point anymore.
For XSLT 2.0 we currently use a modified form of XSLTBench, we expect
the comparison between 1.0 & 2.0 to be useful but we also expect that a
2.0 processor will be marginally slower on these samples. Of course
there will also be samples where 2.0 does better but this is not yet the
focus of our work. If anyone is interested in the XSLTBench samples,
send me an email at kevin dot jones at intel dot com and I will see what
we can do to release them.
Regards
Kev
Intel SOA Expressway team