PERFORMANCE BENCHMARK GENERATION

A method, computer program product, and a computer system are disclosed for processing information in a processor that in one or more embodiments includes generating workload information of a performance base test; determining characteristics of the workload information; determining one or more constraints that can cause behavioral changes to a design of the processor; combining the determined characteristics and the determined one or more constraints to generate one or more example constraints; testing the one or more example constraints in one or more example performance tests; and generating one or more performance benchmarks for the performance base test and the one or more example performance tests.