Essay
Imagine that you are able to perform benchmarking "races" to compare two computers you are thinking about buying. Come up with a list of 5 benchmark programs or usage scenarios you would use to create your own personalized benchmark suite. For each program you select, justify it. For the benchmark suite as a whole, discuss a method for calculated a weighted average of the different program run-times.
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