Mahesh Madhav surprised the SPEC CPU Subcommittee by bringing 18 new benchmark candidates into the SPEC CPUv8 development effort, comprising more than 8,000 modules and nearly 4 million lines of code. Mahesh has been highly responsive to problem reports, providing timely advice and making adjustments to resolve errors. In addition, he has introduced a visual analysis method to the subcommittee that it had not used before — "self-similarity plots."